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An iOS toolchain for Windows. That's to say, build tools for developers who are accustomed to Windows and don't like to be forced to use Apple software to create, build and deploy their native iOS apps. From intermediate to expert, or even beginners that are serious enough to not expect a magical point-and-click thing: a reasonable knowledge of either C/C++ or Objective-C/C++ is expected to start building an iOS app. If you are accustomed to development on Windows and know next to nothing about OS/X, the learning curve may be steep. Especially if you're just supposed to use Xcode to build a project generated by a third-party tool that works on Windows, such as the or, having the possibility to build and deploy directly from Windows without ever rebooting into your Mac will save you a lot of time — and I mean a lot. The inner architecture of an iOS app is not very complicated, but Xcode hides it all under the curtain.

Having a toolchain that works on a familiar ecosystem and does things more simply than what Xcode does is an ideal learning tool. Watch your app being compiled, linked, signed and packaged in an intelligible way. With complete control over the generation toolchain, you get complete control over the type of binaries that you produce. Displaylink for mac os sierra.

You can thus build a lot more things than what Xcode allows you to. For example, you can create new tweaks or system services that will work on jailbroken phones. (available on Cydia), made with this toolchain, is a good example. How do I use it? Plug the toolchain in your favourite IDE (Eclipse, EditPad Pro, Visual Studio, etc.) A basic project creation helper wizard is provided that creates iOS projects for Visual Studio.

For all the other IDEs, the user is expected to have enough knowledge of his IDE to do that by himself. In the worst case, it's always possible to invoke the build tool from the command line in the project directory. Then, open your favourite IDE and start coding (in C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, or even ARM assembly). You can use one of the provided example projects to get you started.

Once you're happy with your code, hit the usual build button (or invoke the build script from the command line), and watch your app being compiled, linked, signed, packaged into an ipa file, and served for OTA deployment to your iDevice. Please note: except for Unity projects, auto import of existing Xcode projects is not supported (yet). However, Xcode projects generated by the Unity editor can be built directly, without the need to open them, using the Unity project builder tool.

What's in the package? The iOS Build Environment features: • The same compiler as Xcode — which means all the ObjC language features ( ARC, blocks, etc) are supported. • The same linker as Xcode — which means you can produce both armv7 and arm64 binaries ( 32 and 64-bit).

• The same binary utilities as Xcode — to examine, modify, split, merge, hack, boil, cook and spice the resulting files. • An assets compiler, binary compatible with Apple's, to package your project's Xcode assets into an Assets.car file.

• a code signature tool that enables your app to be deployed on your iDevice using your own iOS signing identity. • a certificate, private key and provisioning profiles management tool to help you setup or migrate your signing identity. • an iTunes Connect upload tool to send your.ipa files to the App Store. • a project builder. • a remote debug console, to display log messages from your app on your PC while your app is running and receive stack traces when it crashes. • an OTA app deployment tool to deploy your app to your iDevice over Wifi. • a versatile command-line project builder.

• a debugger for iOS. • a Visual Studio project creation wizard and build script creator. • an automatic.plist file converter, from binary to text and vice versa. • a PNG file normalizer. As well as 20 examples, including source code and build scripts, compilable out of the box.