[vtkusers] Best Mac development environment?

[Cory Quammen]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:50:22 -0500, Cory Quammen said:
>
>>The compiler that comes when I install XCode has always been fine for
>>me. With XCode 4, the default gcc is built on the LLVM backend. That
>>should work fine, but if you have problems with that compiler, you can
>>use /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 instead, which is based on the standard gcc
>>backend.
>
> Actually, on the current OS and Xcode, gcc is gone.  It's just a sym link to the llvm-gcc.

Really? On Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 and Xcode 4.1, I have:

> gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc.
build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)

> gcc-4.2 --version
i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)

Cory

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Cory Quammen
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Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill