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>> "Without Visual Studio, which installs the C++ and .Net dev env, it's a pain to install anything which works out of the box in Windows." On Mac don't you ne
by k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "Without Visual Studio, which installs the C++ and .Net dev env, it's a pain to install anything which works out of the box in Windows."
On Mac don't you need to installed the Xcode command line tools before being able to do most dev stuff?
- evilduck 12y agoThat's the easiest way, but not the only way. Likewise, on Ubuntu you also often need build-essentials and various other dev libs manually installed.
- lmedinas 12y agoDo we really want to compare "sudo apt-get install build-essentials" with installing all VS, Perl,Python etc... in Windows ? :)
- recursive 12y agoWell, in some ways it's worse. I'm not too familiar with linux, but a year or two ago, I was trying to set up a rails development environment on a Ubuntu VM. I had quite a few challenges along the way, but one of them that I recall that confounded me for an hour or so was that I needed to install build-essentials, which was not documented in the guide I was using, nor was it marked as a dependency in whatever package I was actually trying to install. When you install Visual Studio, generally it automatically installs anything you're missing, or at least tells you how to do it.
- mrpippy 12y agoWhich can be done by running 'clang' from a terminal. And if you want the full Xcode, install from the App Store with just an Apple ID needed, again for free.