.cpp to .app on mac

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How can I make a C++ file into a application file on Macintosh?
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I'm no expert on mac but isn't .app what they call executable files?
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Google Xcode

I'm no expert on mac but isn't .app what they call executable files?



Yep, have any idea how to do it?
A .app is a type of Bundle.
If you don't know how to turn your c++ code into an executable I think you will have better luck posting in the Beginners Forum.

Basically what you want to do is compile your source code, exactly how you do that depends on what toolchain you are using. As somebody posted you can use xcode. I think it's apples official development tools (?) or you can use (for example) gcc, perhapses together with codeblocks which is a really nice open source IDE.
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Download Xcode, which contains Apple's compiler toolchain and IDE for OS X. Search Apple's website for it.
I didn't really read thriough the whole document (I just got it googling), but at a first glance it seems pertinent: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qq/qq09-mac-deployment.html

Good luck!

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