Integrate GCC 4.4 with NetBeans on a Mac

Question

I've got NetBeans 6.9 installed on a Mac OS Snow Leopard. Also, I installed gcc 4.4 through MacPorts in order to experiment with C++0x. I believe, by default NetBeans uses the standard Apple gcc 4.2 compiler which is invoked through a g++ symlink found in /usr/bin.

My question is: how can I still use the new compiler?

I tried creating a new Tool Collection in NetBeans by specifying the default directory to /opt/local/bin which is where gcc 4.4 is present. But this caused error messages, i.e. No compiler sets were found.... I also tried modifying the existing GNU Tool Collection by selectively specifying the C++ Compiler command as /opt/local/bin/x86_64-apple-darwin10-g++-mp-4.4. However, this caused build errors which I didn't even understand. Any ideas appreciated.

Answer 1

What you describe here, adding a new tools chain with that path, just should work with gcc 4.4, see here http://forums.netbeans.org/post-70004.html
Are you sure nothing is missing in your GCC 4.4 ?

The only missing step is to click "Reset Settings" help in Code Assistance tab after creating the tool chain, to make sure that code assistance picks the new headers.