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post #21 of 27
8/28/07 at 11:46pm
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However, it does back up the other fellow's statement that having just Eclipse installed does not let you compile
Um... If we are referring to the same person, he was saying at all, which is false. It is true Eclipse by itself does not contain a compiler, as I believe it depends on GCC, and assumes you have it installed. XCode also uses GCC so if you have XCode installed you should have GCC installed, but it doesn't seem like you have gcc installed, or else it is installed in a very nonstandard way as it is not in your PATH. Eclipse itself is a very specialised text editor when it comes down to it. Yes it is more han that, but in a very general sense all an IDE does is edit text in a certain way, I can and do program just using emacs on the Mac as that I personally find easiest. Believe me, you most certainly CAN compile C and C++ code on the Mac, I have done, and continue to do, it personally. Not only that I have converted XCode projects, which can just as easily be C and C++ I believe as Obj-C though I don't mess with that IDE, to straight command line compilations using SCons/GCC as well, and have done numerous compiles of other projects either by hand or via macports. Seablade
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post #22 of 27
8/29/07 at 12:02am
hrm... I see what you are saying

I used to use emacs to code for the longest time, but i didnt like how it did its error commenting, so i switched to Eclipse. Now, just so I am clear however, GCC is included with the OS?

If it is, then it is possible that Leopard puts it in a different place (probably explains why leopard devs have to use a newer copy of XCode). if it is not, then I will have to get it on here somehow, since I never know when i might need to code something (yea... right)
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post #23 of 27
8/29/07 at 12:57am
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Now, just so I am clear however, GCC is included with the OS?
It is included on the install disks of released versions of OS under the developer's tools. It is NOT installed by default and has to be manually installed(Much like X11 for example) I cannot speak for leopard and how things play on it though. All I can tell you is that it is not finding GCC in your case, you can do a find command to locate it on your HD if you are certain it is installed, and add its location to your path and it might very well work. Can't say for certain. Seablade
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post #24 of 27
8/29/07 at 8:21am
no, I never went out of my way to install it, therefore it is not there.

LIke i said earlier, I sort of took for granted that it would be there since I always installed XCode immediately after a reformat
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post #25 of 27
8/30/07 at 3:47am
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I like tabbing through my pieces of code rather than F10ing through them
You can change to All-In-One mode under the main tab in Xcode Preferences. I got sick of juggling with F10 as well.
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post #26 of 27
8/30/07 at 9:25am
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Originally Posted by garygchouvln View Post
You can change to All-In-One mode under the main tab in Xcode Preferences. I got sick of juggling with F10 as well.

Well gosh that is information that would have been useful months ago

I am no longer studying Software Engineering, so my use of XCode is greatly diminished. I was never a very talented programmer anyway. I could figure out what to do, I just couldn't figure out how.
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post #27 of 27
9/3/07 at 4:39am
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Originally Posted by TheStu
I could figure out what to do, I just couldn't figure out how.
lol tell me about it.
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