Developer tools for everyone
Directly with the OS X of your Mac you have a quite big bunch of nice and powerful tools delivered on your installation DVD.
They are not put on your Mac automatically, because they are designed to be developer tools.
To get them running, just insert your Tiger, Leopard (or in future Snow Leopard) installation DVD. Then go to “optional installs” and afterwards to “Xcode Tools”. Install the package or anything else you would need.
Here is a list of the most useful delivered utilities:
- Accessibility Inspector
- Accessibility Verifier
- Applet Launcher
- AU Lab
- AULabHelp
- BigTop
- Bluetooth Explorer
- Buildlet
- Clipboard Viewer
- Core Image Fun House
- CrashReporterPrefs
- Dashcode
- FileMerge
- HALLab
- Help Indexer
- Icon Composer
- Instruments
- Interface Builder
- IORegistryExplorer
- iSync Plug-in Maker
- Jar Bundler
- MallocDebug
- OpenGL Driver Monitor
- OpenGL Profiler
- OpenGL Shader Builder
- PackageMaker
- PacketLogger
- Pixie
- Property List Editor
- Quartz Composer
- Quartz Composer Visualizer
- Quartz Debug
- Quartz Debug
- Repeat After Me
- Shark
- SleepX
- Spin Control
- SRLanguageModeler
- Syncrospector
- Thread Viewer
- USB Prober
- Xcode
- ZoneMonitor
The tools are really tiny and do what their names say. It is really worth to have a glance at. So take a little time and install them. The complete thing including documentation and developer IDE will eat about 2,5 GB of disk space.
I will write some blog articles of my favourite tools from that list, soon.
Drop a comment of what application you like at most or what you are generally thinking about the Xcode tools.
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