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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also how about not forcing everybody to use Apple hardware to compile their apps?

  It’s a thing? Can’t you just gcc binary into existence?

  Fuck apple.

  Fuck Putin. Fuck apple too.

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  • paperplane@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In principle you can, the Mach-O format is openly documented and implemented in the major compilers. The issue is that you need a sysroot (aka SDK) of the frameworks and headers for your target OS, which in Apple’s case are proprietary and cannot be redistributed legally (you could probably rip them out of a macOS installation yourself though). For iOS apps you’d also need to sign the binaries and install the app to the device which is non-trivial to impossible to do on other platforms.

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• pandacoder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Xcode is such hot garbage, the UX Is what you get when you like pretty and hate your programmer. (Honestly I hate most of Apple’s UX.)

  Also I compiled a C# app for osx-x64 yesterday on Linux (that works, though I have no idea of I could sign it properly to avoid Apple’s annoying side load interference), though maybe it included a binary originally compiled by Microsoft on Apple hardware.

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