Re: Just the "Compile" button!

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

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.