[vtkusers] Best Mac development environment?

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
You need to install XCode, but as someone who has spent time
developing code on the Mac too I would highly recommend you check out
Qt Creator. It can use the standard Mac compilers, and CMake can
generate the appropriate projects for it too. I use it on Linux and
Mac frequently, it has a good code model with completion, GDB
integration and other niceties. It has good git integration too.

There are also a few other cross platform IDEs that support C++, such
as Eclipse, in many ways it depends on your preferences.

Marcus