

The point of next chapter is to show you that can try cmake -g Xcode with any c++ project which is supporting cmake as a build system. From my opinion the best (and the one?) library for making REST calls from C++. I’ve used it couple times when I was working in Microsoft. I will show you on example of Casablanca project. This means that you can use any IDE ( Xcode, Visual Studio and any other) from this list for any C++ project which supports cmake (cross platform make). You don’t know what was the relief for me when I found out about Generators in cmake. At first I thought that I should just write some script which will generate Xcode project system from make files. I started to look again what else I need to do and I’ve found this Xcode 4 Code Completion for External Build Projects.

But this one was really easy to fix: I create new project with External Build System:Īfter day or two I realized that I do not have IntelliSence in Xcode. After that I realized that I still cannot debug my process. I created new C++ workspace and added all my C++ files to it. And at first of course I realized that there are not so many C++ projects which support Xcode project system.Īt first I tried really rough approach. Anyway, I’m just trying to make a point, that I haven’t used Xcode, cmake, make, gcc and all other related to C++ stuff out of Visual Studio and MSBuild.īecause Visual Studio was showing me for a long time that using IDEs is helpful I decided that I should try Xcode when I got something to do with C++ code. Saying professional because I also played with Borland C++ in Collage. More than that I only used Visual Studio and MSBuild for professional C++ development.

For now if you never used Xcode and you want to try it, start your experience from watching video Xcode Core Concepts.Īs I said I’ve never used Xcode before.

My first impression was … weird, anyway I want to spend more time before doing some conclusions. One of them was to find out if this is true or not, that folks are saying about Visual Studio. I always wanted to try Xcode, for various reasons. In these 6 months mostly I was working with JavaScript and Python, but recently I needed to do some C++ development. Not a long time, especially comparing to how much I spent in Windows. How to use Xcode with almost any C++ project
