IPhone programming on Mac OS X is not on a Mac

Question

Good afternoon.

This is not a programming issue, but I think there are people here who are perfect for the question I have to ask.

I see all day asking about “programming for iphone,” and now I'm curious, and I want to try it too.

For this I need Mac OS X, no question about that. But I have a problem. I do not have a Mac computer.

I have an Intel dual-core PC running XP. Snow Leopard for Intel, but for Intel Mac computers, right ?.

If I manage to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my laptop.

Do you think I can still install and do programming for the iPhone as well as on the Mac?

Any problems with programming or debugging?

And there is one more thing. I do not have iphone. Could this be a problem?

Thanks for the help again.

Answer 1

There is a commercial environment that allows you to develop iPhone applications directly from a Windows machine. You might want to take a look at it, instead of going through the huge and illegal problem of setting up a hacked version of OS X on your PC.

http://www.dragonfiresdk.com/index.htm

It was recently released, and they claim that some of the applications created with it have already been approved for release on the App Store.

From http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/15/dragonfire-sdk :

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FYI, if you want to build for Blackberry until recently, it was hard to do without Windows, so it's not as if Apple was the only one that forces you to use certain hardware / software computers for their platform. If you want to create for Windows, you need to start Windows.