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You can ship a fully signed and self-updating macOS app from Linux (or Windows) using my product Conveyor: https://hydraulic.dev/ https://hydraulic.dev/ It ha
by mike_hearn 1mo ago
You can ship a fully signed and self-updating macOS app from Linux (or Windows) using my product Conveyor:
https://hydraulic.dev/ https://hydraulic.dev/
It has built in support for Electron, JVM, Flutter and even native apps (although of course then you still have to compile the native binaries on macOS yourself).
That also works the other way around. You can ship to Windows from Linux or macOS.
- henearkr 1mo agoNo support for iOS though.
- mike_hearn 1mo agoRight, it's meant for portable desktop apps. You have to compile iOS apps on a Mac anyway so I'm not sure there'd be any demand for Conveyor's cross-building support for iOS apps.
- henearkr 1mo ago"You have to compile iOS apps on a Mac anyway" Well, not if somebody finds a way to run the compilation elsewhere! Hence my comment! Right now, iOS dev requires to own a recent Mac machine, which is hell of expensive, and moreover needs to be renewed every few years... Completely unjustifiable...
- mike_hearn 1mo agoIf you target cross-platform frameworks that don't require Apple's toolchain, it can be made to work. For instance if you write an Electron or JVM app for the desktop then Conveyor can ship it from anything, because all the native components come pre-compiled in that case. But I don't think many people are writing mobile apps in that way.