What is Xcode and do I need it?
Xcode (formerly Project Builder) is Apple’s free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for MacOS X. It consists of a GUI (Xcode) which can manage the files in a project, relate to version management systems such as CVS, and relate to the native build system to issue commands to compilers, linkers etc to build the project. It also contains a Class Browser and a fully featured code editor. Xcode is tightly integrated with Interface Builder which enables the simple construction of GUIs for Mac Applications. Along with the graphical applications, the Xcode package contains all the compilers linkers and programming utilities uou need to build libraries and applications. It must be installed even if you don’t want the GUI bits. It comes with every copy of MacOS X and new machine, but is not preinstalled. If you lost your disk or need updates go http://developer.apple.com. There you need to sign on as a member of ADC, which is free. Then you can access the downloads section.
