Need advice on Windows to OS X Port Estimation and cost of dev. on OS X

Question

I am a 10year+, C++ linux/windows developer and I have been asked to estimate the effort to port the windows application to OS X.

I haven't developed on OS X before,so I don't know what to expect.

It is a C++/Qt application, so I want to ask: what are the de facto tools like editor, IDE, compiler, make tool, etc ? Which tools are commercial and need to be purchased ?

How much time would it take for me to get used to the environment and be productive ?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Answer 1

You're in luck that your app is in Qt, TrollTech has a lot of documentation on how to do this; developing on OS X can be very similar to developing on Linux, make sure to check out the MacPorts project (http://www.macports.org), which is like apt-get/yum for Mac. Your toolchain is the usual suspects - gcc/make/autoconf, etc...