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Hope Apple is listening, it would nice if I could develop iOS apps without owning, leasing, or remotely connecting to a Mac.

• garmaine 8y ago
  You can, with a bit of leg work. There are ways of building iOS apps on Linux.
  • Cort3z 8y ago
    How?
    • k4ch0w 8y ago
      Hackintoshs, its a lot of work and really buggy.
      • RussianCow 8y ago
        Hackintosh, aside from the obvious issues with it, is not a way of "building iOS apps on Linux".
      • garmaine 8y ago
        No, you can compile directly in Linux. You need to build the tool chain yourself, extract the SDK from official sources, and use third party build tools.
      • skykooler 8y ago
        Hackintoshes can no longer publish apps, as XCode checks that your motherboard has a valid Apple ID during the build process.
        • 0xQSL 8y ago
          Really? I've published an app from a hackintosh-vm running on kvm some time in the past 2 months.
          • CraftThatBlock 8y ago
            During your setup you most likely set the motherboard ID as an Apple one
        • jawngee 8y ago
          Not even remotely true.
      • stevefan1999 8y ago
        You can run Hackintosh on KVM just right away, although there are practically no 3D acceleration (unless you opt for PCI passthrough) and the performance is really tearful awful, still, it runs Simulator just fine. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
      • danieldk 8y ago
        Given that running a Hackintosh often still requires using random unverified kexts from the net, I find it somewhat irresponsible to push applications built on such a system to your customers/users. How can you be certain that none of the kexts is backdoored and the attacker uses this as a vector to add malware to applications?
    • wingerlang 8y ago
      https://github.com/theos/theos https://github.com/theos/theos
  • e12e 8y ago
    Not while being compliant with Apple licenses? And you're beholden to Apple for a developer ID and permission to distribute applications, which they can revoke on a whim?
• nine_k 8y ago
  Apple is in the business of selling hardware and accompanying it with software and cloud services. They have zero interest of Mac software running elsewhere. They do have an interest for other software to be runnable under macOS / iOS without a major porting effort, but not a very great interest, I suppose.
• wpdev_63 8y ago
  You can run osx within vmware: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker
  • copperx 8y ago
    ... with no GPU acceleration, which makes using macOS painful even on a powerful machine.
  • svick 8y ago
    Where do I get a macOS license that allows me to run it in VMWare?
    • zyx321 8y ago
      You gotta buy a Mac...
• msie 8y ago
  That's as bad as saying how it would be nice to develop for Windows without owning a PC.