Getting Started with Netduino

Set Up Your Developer Tools

First, you’ll need to make sure you’ve got development tools installed on your machine. On Mac OS X, you should download and install Xcode from http://developer.apple.com/xcode. If you’re on Linux, you’ll need to install all the packages you need for C development, as well as a few other tools (autoconf, automake, libtool, bison, flex, and gettext). On Ubuntu Linux, for example, you can install these with the following apt-get command at the terminal (you’ll be prompted for your password whenever you run a command with sudo):

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf \
   libtool bison flex gettext