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Hello,

I want to get a feel of Iphone and develop applications like HelloWorld just for testing. I surfed google and some of them show a painful procedure of installing Snow Leopard on PC which i don't want to risk because if something goes wrong my all programs installed will be useless and that would waste another 1 week of mine. I do not want to sell my applications in App Store. Is there is any way to program for Iphone on Windows 7?

Thanks in advance :)

+1  A: 

There are some SDK like Dragon Fire SDK but these sdk use their own libraries. If you want to develop using the Cocoa Touch framework you must have a Mac.

Noya
+1  A: 

You can always try VMWare to see if that route works (haven't tried it myself). They also have these additional efforts: http://www.osx86project.org/ and http://www.hackintosh.com/

iWasRobbed
+1 on the VMWare method. It's by far the most painless way to try out Xcode on a non-mac. Beware of possible EULA violations though -- previously you weren't allowed to do this, although techincally possible...
Krumelur
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One of my friends is running Snow Leopard on VirtualBox(which is free) on Windows 7, everything seems OK to him. You can install either retail version of Snow Leopard or OSX86 version.

Some useful links:

http://zijric.com/2010/07/install-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-on-windows-using-virtualbox/

http://www.taranfx.com/install-snow-leopard-virtualbox

shader