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Unless I'm missing something, Apple didn't mandate that you need to use XCode. They said that you need to "originally write" apps in C, C++ or Objective-C. Yo
by abstractbill 17y ago
Unless I'm missing something, Apple didn't mandate that you need to use XCode. They said that you need to "originally write" apps in C, C++ or Objective-C. You can do that without using XCode, and conversely you can use XCode to compile something that's not "originally written" in one of those languages (by using C as an intermediate language).
- tptacek 17y agoPresumably you still need to use their compiler toolchain.
- abstractbill 17y agoFor the DRM signing stuff, yeah I would guess you almost certainly do need Apple's toolchain. I wouldn't be surprised if you can use other tools to do everything else though - indeed, Adobe was just using LLVM to output ARM assembly for their Flash-to-iPhone compiler. From the legal side, I haven't seen any requirement that you use their toolchain - again, it's just been the "originally written in" stuff.