Both options are described next - use whichever you prefer.

The second option involves using Xcode as the development environment, and creating an Xcode 'project' to organise your files. You can now run the engine with your compiled project. Xcode as an editor onlyto write your source code, and using the 'gcc' command within the Terminal window to compile your code. You can edit this behavior by editing the target schemes. Install only the Apple Developer Command Line. There are some commercial compilers like Intel's C++ compiler but I do not know if these require Xcode or are C compilers. The Unreal Engine Xcode project is configured to build Debug configuration when you use Xcodes Product > Build option and Development configuration when you use Product > Build For > Profiling. This requires a free Apple developer account, and is a huge download (version 12.5. IDEs like Eclipse use these command line compilers to do the building of programs. package management systems like macports, fink and homebrew need these command line tools to run parts of their infrastructure as well as to compiler their ports - however these package managers include ports of other c compilers e.g. (These command line tools also seem to be available from Apple's developer site if you register but I would get them via Xcode unless you have a very good reason and understand the difference).Īll other compilers I know of use one of these two compilers and their binary tools to set themselves up.

(Note current versions of Xcode >=5 I think only have clang) Make sure you install the command line tools if you want to use the compilers from outside Xcode. It includes two C compilers clang (the compiler Apple currently supports) and an old version of gcc. To get a free C/C++ compiler you have to download Xcode.

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