John Jackson writes: > Hi chaps - here's my first... > > Programmed my first Apple computer commercially in > 1983. > > I've got two c++ projects to be ported from Windows > where I was using Bloodshed. They both do everything > in one big program, using the simplest old-fashioned > screen outputs and inputs. I'm happy to keep I/O as > simple as poss. (...though I would like to be able to > write to the/a screen in run time without doing the > equivalent of a degree first - like back in the '70's > !) > > I love intriguing detective projects which is what > mine are. That's why I don't need another one - i.e. > spending 6 months learning cocoa/carbon and whatever > where I seem to be obliged to define all my data > structures from scratch. > > Now I've got X-code up, something notices the .cpp on > my source files and opens an editor - which surely > implies that it knows they are c++ source files. But > what in the name of all that's holy do you have to do > to get the compiler to compile?! > > With Bloodshed and Visual c++ you could do complex > tasks the way the system wanted you to but they did > also offer relatively simple "just compile" options > too. > > Can anyone point me to the compile button please? I had to do a web search to find out what X-code is. Apparently it's something to do with an Apple GUI: it's certainly nothing to do with gcc. Try http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/xcode-users Andrew.
