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> every single app in the store has already been successfully compiled for x86 Really!?
by someperson 14y ago
> every single app in the store has already been successfully compiled for x86
Really!?
- peterkelly 14y agoTheoretically it would be possible develop your app in Xcode and only ever compile it for ARM and test on the actual device. But if you use the iOS simulator to develop/test your app (which I imagine every developer does), then you're running your iOS app natively on OS X, linked against a version of all the iOS libraries compiled for x86.
- rsynnott 14y agoNo, actually. There are a couple of third-party development tools for iOS which only compile to ARM (and which therefore can't run in the iOS simulator), notably Adobe Air for mobile, and that Delphi for iOS thing. 99.999%, though; anything written in Xcode, and anything written with the majority of third-party tools, has been run in the simulator.