This article will not try to improve on your skills or show you how to use any advanced tools for building a redistributable binary. If you have downloaded a program source package and you did not know what to do with it (and you still do not), then this article will allow you to go through building your first program from the ground up with the help of the Terminal.
Once you open the program’s source code folder and you see those meaninglessly named files that you do not seem to find any use for, your life will definitely change.įor some of us, that meant that we just had to learn what to do with those kinds of packages.
However, sometimes you encounter a so-called source package that will give any newcomer nightmares for a very long time. People usually end up running applications on their Mac that do not need any more fiddling than double clicking on their executable.
