Is there such a thing? Mac OS X was based on BSD Unix so is it possible? Or from what I have heard, there is a MonoDevelop plugin that has an iPhone sim.
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OSX is based on BSD, not Linux. You cannot run Xcode on a Linux machine.
thenduks
2010-03-09 01:58:08
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Nope, you've heard of MonoTouch which is a .NET/mono environment for iPhone development. But you still need a Mac and the official iPhone SDK. And the emulator is the official apple one, this acts as a separate IDE and allows you to not have to code in Objective C, rather you code in c#
It's an interesting project to say the least....
EDIT: apparently, you can distribute on the app store now, early on that was a no go....
curtisk
2010-03-09 02:01:39
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The low-level toolchain for Xcode (the gcc compiler family, the gdb debugger, etc.) is all open source and common to Unix and Linux platforms. But the IDE--the editor, project management, indexing, navigation, build system, graphical debugger, visual data modeling, SCM system, refactoring, project snapshots, etc.--is a Mac OS X Cocoa application, and is not portable.
cdespinosa
2010-03-09 05:18:43
+1 excellent short breakdown of what is common and what is mac centric
curtisk
2010-03-09 13:04:01
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If you run VMware Player or Workstation (or maybe VirtualBox, I'm not sure if it supports Mac OS X, but may), and then Mac OS X Server (Client can't legally be virtualized). Of course, in this case you are running XCode on OS X, but your host machine could be linux.
Ian
2010-03-09 14:41:49