[Interest] universal builds on OS X

René J. V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 11:16:42 CEST 2016


Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:

> Some people are working on a toolchain for cross-compiling OS X software;
> maybe
> it could be extended to iOS? It "only" requires the SDK that you can borrow
> from a
> friend's mac (or even by downloading xcode yourself).
> 
> Here's a link :
> https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross

I can see why one would want to do this for targeting iOS, but OS X? How are you 
going to test your code? If you're going to run a VM for that you can just as 
well build in it ...

> But I guess the hardest part would be all the signing that Xcode does to
> allow
> you to run some code you wrote on your 800$ iphone...

Guess why I never looked at developing for my phone ... and I only buy 2nd-hand 
iPhones? ;)

R.




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