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Xcode is extensively configurable. You are not bound to using GCC as the compiler if your language doesn't have a GCC front end.
If need be, the entire build process can be customized, including the compile phase. However, a lot of this configurability is undocumented and not officially supported by ...

Dude, I feel your pain!

Did I mention how annoying the crashing PureBasic IDE is?

There's always the Xcode IDE, or you could write a BBEdit plug-in for TextWrangler

Well I haven't died, just given up on PureBasic for the time being and switched back to Blitz Max. I originally purchased PureBasic with high hopes of using it for cross-platform development, but I have to say it left me somewhat disappointed. I find Mac 3.94d to be so buggy as to be practically ...

pbcompiler works fine for me (I'm running OS X 10.3.9 on a G4).
I just added the path commands as described in the INSTALL readme ( "/applications/purebasic" because that's where I installed it).

btw, all Unix files prefixed with "." are hidden (including ".bashrc").
Type ls -a from your home ...

Interested.

Thanks for that, michel51.

Yes, I think so too because I tried exactly the same program on the Windows version of PureBasic (which I run on my Mac under an emulator) and it seems to work fine.

Oh well, I'll just report it as a bug. Damn nuisance though, I was hoping to do all my development using ...

Hi all,

I'm using PureBasic 3.94d on Mac OS X 10.3.9.
But I'm having difficulty getting the Console functions to work.

Here's my code (compiled as a 'Console' executable):


Global char$

Procedure GetChar()
Shared char$
Protected key$
While key$ = ""
key$ = Inkey()
Wend
char$ = key ...

I use Yellow Dog Linux as my primary OS, running on an Apple PowerBook G4.
My question is, what chance of a PPC Linux version of PureBasic