HP Prime wireless kit

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Quote:p.s. I use Xcode, but don't really understand all the 'makefile' stuff going on in the background when compiling.

Makefiles are generated through the GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, etc.), which aim at making it possible to detect platform differences before build time, and set configuration information for the build appropriately. There are other well-known build systems with the same aim, such as CMake.

Quote:Is it feasible to use the github source code in Xcode to create a small Mac OS app?

Definitely. Once libhpcalcs is built, all you have to do is reference the headers somehow, and link against the thin library that references the shared object.
For specifics and step-by-step procedures, the Internet is a better source of information about that than I am. In my previous job, more than 3 years ago, I used to work on a MacBook Pro, but I installed Linux after a single week because MacOS X's peculiarities for compiling the software I needed / I was used to were just too numerous and slowed me down too much

Every programming language worth using interoperates with C, so all languages available on MacOS X (C, C++, Objective-C, etc.) can use libhpcalcs' C API.

Needless to say, if you plan on publishing your small MacOS X app, you need to do so under a GPLv2-compatible license... but don't worry about that, a great many software licenses are compatible with the GPL