hello to anyone there.i am new to houdini's hdk and i was wondering if anyone knows how to use houdini's hdk with mac osx's xcode i am running 10.5.8.thank you.

i was also wondering what kind of standalone apps can be created with this hdk ?,i come from a maya background and houdini is alien to me.because in maya a standalone is simply a console app that runs from command line.