I looked at Apple developer center and after lot of searching around, found a downloadable version of Xcode installer. But towards the end, the installation failed without giving any reasons. Starting the installation program from DVD was pretty straight-forward.
Though it might not have all the features of latest release of Xcode but for many use-cases, it would be sufficient. Otherwise, you are required to pay for the Software. There are 2 ways to get Xcode on your computer: Through MacPorts, installation of gnuplot is just one command:īut in order for MacPorts to work properly, it requires fully functional installation of Xcode. Similar to APT (Advanced Packaging Tool), available on Debian Linux distribution systems, we have MacPorts for Mac-OS. For my case, I wanted to install gnuplot, a tool for generating graphs and plots based on my data. Apart from SDK’s for iPhone/iPad application development, it also comes bundled with gcc compiler and other Unix utilities which are required for installation of many other packages. Xcode is Apple’s IDE for creating applications for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
