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Recommended IDE for plugin development

Tomasz Marek
Beginner
Hello All,

I am considering a development of an integration of a rendering engine into Archicad 16 , 15.

What are recommended IDE for Windows and Mac?
I have read that Xcode 3.2.6 works well and I am not sure about which version of VC++ will be good. Will VC++ 2008 Standard work fine with the SDK?
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stefan
Expert
You need VC2010. It used to be VC2005 till AC15. Not sure if 2012 would work.

And on Mac I had trouble using XCode 4. XCode 3.2.6 seems to be the advisable option. I had to dig it out of an old backup, as it was removed by XCode 4.
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Tomasz wrote:

I am considering a development of an integration of a rendering engine into Archicad 16 , 15.
Thea ?
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Tomasz Marek
Beginner
stefan wrote:
You need VC2010. It used to be VC2005 till AC15. Not sure if 2012 would work.

And on Mac I had trouble using XCode 4. XCode 3.2.6 seems to be the advisable option. I had to dig it out of an old backup, as it was removed by XCode 4.
Thank you for the info.
I have downloaded Xcode 3.2.6 from Apple developer site.
Thea ?
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