site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Sep 8, 2005, at 8:35 AM, dkern@10k.org wrote: -Shawn _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... The kernel build mechanism is Makefile based, so some IDE won't help to build. Typing "make" in Terminal isn't exactly horrible, though. Gives a nice editor. Other editors (BBEdit, TextWrangler, SubEthaEdit, ...) should work as well. I should have made myself more clear: my curiosity is to what -you- use instead of what should work or what the kernel mechanisms are. e.g. since xcode provides IOKit and KEXT templates, most people who are developing those(new or old) are more likely to be using xcode. Consider things like symbol search, function completion, context sensitive documentation are such useful features for working on large projects such as the xnu, I am rather surprised that the kernel build mechnaism hasn't been migrate to pb/xcode after all those years. jake Darwin (hence xnu) is open source and available for non-Apple hardware. Xcode however requires Mac OS X, neither of which are open source or usable on non-Apple hardware. That is one of the reasons why things like xnu don't depend on Xcode. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com