[vtkusers] Best Mac development environment?

[Sean McBride]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:52:08 +0000, Steven Chall said:

>I've been developing a medium-sized application in Windows7: I've built
>VTK 5.8.0 and Qt 4.7.1 from source, along with my own C++ code, using
>Microsoft Visual Studio/VC++ 2010, generating the solution etc. with
>CMake.  I need to build the whole thing to run in Mac OSX.  What is the
>best development environment, and notably C++ compiler, to so this with
>on the Mac?  Thanks.

You pretty much have to install Xcode, which these days is available either on the 'Mac App Store' or by joining Apple's developer program.  It provides a GUI IDE, command line tools, etc.  CMake is able to generate Xcode project files or unix make files, either of which you can use on Mac OS.

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