On Dec 14, 2015, at 4:00 AM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com>
Subject: [PD-dev] building on OS X
Date: December 14, 2015 at 1:53:10 AM MST
To: pd-dev@lists.iem.at

* Do I need XCode? (and thus an Apple-ID?)

Yes, you need Xcode. It has the compiler & build chain you need. Open source projects generally compile just fine from the commandline. You do not need to use Xcode itself for building Pd.

You also don’t need to install Xcode form the App Store. If you have an Apple ID (or can borrow someone’s) you can download the current & beta versions of Xcode from the Apple Developer site and just install it yourself.

* How do I install all other necessary tools (git, etc.)? I heard about
homebrew, fink, macports…

Use Homebrew. It’s great: http://brew.sh

* Once things are set up, is it feasible to have completely CLI based
workflow?

Yes.