Re: [MACTCL] Ponderings of an open source developer...

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Larry,

The boxed version of MacOS X has always included the full developer 
tools suite: gcc, gdb, etc, as well as Tcl (8.3.2 currently) but no Tk 
yet, and Perl, emacs, vi, and lots of other goodies...  It also comes 
with a GUI Development Environment Suite (Project Builder/Interface 
Builder) which are pretty nice, if not as mature as something like VC++ 
or CodeWarrior.  That's what I used for the Tcl & Tk projects.

The lowest level of the Apple Developer Connection subscription (~$100) 
will get you quarterly updates to the developer CD, plus lots of other 
sample code, and SDK type goodies.  Most of these are available for 
download as well, but the CD's are convenient...

For a while, the machines that were shipping with X on them didn't 
include the Developer Tools CD in the box (supposedly 'cause it would 
scare consumer Mac customers), so you would have to send $20 to Apple to 
get them to ship you the CD, or download the whole CD from Apple's web 
site (somewhat of a trial unless you have a fast connection).  But the 
newest G4's have a disk image of the Developer Tools on the hard drive, 
and also on the restore CD.  I don't know whether this is true of the 
new iMac's as well.

Have fun...

Jim


On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 10:24  AM, Larry W. Virden wrote:

> Okay, if I were to be so foolish as to break terribly the family budget 
> and
> buy a mac that runs mac os x, putting me into the dog house for the next
> 10 or more years, am i even going to be able to do any software 
> development
> on the thing?  Or am I still faced with the fact that, as far as I can 
> tell,
> one has to sink a large amount of cash into buying a c compiler?
>
> I really don't care to rewrite all tcl extensions into java...
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Jim Ingham                                   ji...@ap...
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