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C++ compiler ?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA.
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Hi, you need to find a c++ compiler for mac osX immediately. I wish I could help at this moment, but unfortunately, I can't. I have a mac also but haven't not been able to run the native unix c++ compiler. Also, the equivalent program to the mac for ms visual is 'project builder'. It's free for the download from apple. It would be great if you could get that working on your machine and let me know. If that does not work we'll find something else.
I just received the email above from a professor.
Does anyone else know exactly what I could use in this case?
any help would be great! Not exactly sure what to get. 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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OS X comes with a C++ compiler (GCC, to be specific) and an IDE. It's called Xcode Tools in 10.3 and above. They're on the install disks. You can check out http://developer.apple.com/ for more info.
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Chuck
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Chuckit is correct, gcc is available for OS X, and it is a very good compiler.
If you have C++ code, the best way to compile the source from the command line is to use the "g++ <filename>:
Also, like Chuckit said, XCode is Apple's native IDE for developing applications on the Mac. (In OS 10.2 and below, that IDE was known as "Project Builder") I assume that you are fairly new to C++ development, and are taking an introductory class in that language. If so, then when you create a new project in XCode, you will want to select "Command Line Utility->C++ Tool" for this class.
Let us know if you have any questions!
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i would seriously think about trying to get a new teacher. you know, maybe someone that actually knows what he/she is talking about! I mean hell, everyone should know about the GNU Compiler Collection by the time they get to "professor" status.
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What, you guys have never heard of the "native unix compiler"?... lol... It creates universal binaries that run across all versions of Unix all the way back to the very first version of Unix. Though I hear the punch-card support is shoddy.
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Actually, the "native" unix compiler has traditionally been "cc" I believe that Sun still compiles their OS with "cc", and that the Free/Net/Open BSDs are shipped with a "cc" and "gcc"
On Tiger, doing an ls -la on /usr/bin/cc shows that it is just a link to gcc-4.0
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Don't most systems just have cc as a link to gcc?
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Chuck
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I guess I was just making humor out of the professors interesting choice of terminology.
It would be like saying "Microsoft Visual C++ is the native Windows compiler"... The terminology comes from some very interesting presuppositions, to say the least.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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That sucks too, at my school all programs have to be compiled on the unix machines so everyone has to use gcc which also makes it easier for thigns to get graded. That is great because anyone with ssh can write their homework using vim or emacs and compile with gcc.
I agree with leira, how your professor wouldn't know about gcc is kinda surprising.
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