Need Some Help Getting Started

Hey all, I've got the mchelper going strong and I'm totally pumped to start coding, but I can't seem to get any of the IDEs to work out. Firstly, I'm run OS X 10.4.11. This means that I can't install the latest version of XCode (10.5 needed) and consequently can't seem to be able to open the xcodeproj. Actually, it just looks like a folder containing a project.pbxproj which doesn't nothing when opened. Bummer. XCode looks like a no go. Although, I'm only running 2.0. Might there be a non-10.5 upgrade that could help? I couldn't find anything except links to Apple's developers download page for the latest version. So naturally, Eclipse should be my savior. I downloaded the latest version and followed all the instruction for the CDT. Now when I want to make a new project I get C and C++ options as well. Cool beans. But installing the GnuARM for my PPC doesn't seem to have any effect on my C project choices. I should have a Standard Make C Project available now right? I've confirmed in terminal that the installation was complete. Running: arm-elf-gcc -v get's me all the right output. I'm totally baffled. I've tried to re-install all the Eclipse / CDT / GnuARM stuff a few times now. Surely I'm just missing something central to it all working and skipped it each time. Any ideas? I'd really appreciate a little help here. Thanks.

HA! So this is a pretty legit work-around, but I think I've got it behaving functionally now. I can use Xcode to edit all the relevant files, then use terminal to navigate to the firmware folder and call make. I can't believe that just worked. Sweet.

Cool - that's pretty much all the Xcode project does anyways, is call 'make' on the Makefile in the project directory, so you're doing just the right thing. I had forgotten that saving those project files in 10.5 would probably mean they couldn't be opened on 10.4. I'll see if I can find an older machine to save them with in the repository.