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jevinskie on April 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: RoboVM: Native iOS apps in Java

Theos [0] has been used with Linux before but I have never personally done so. I don't think anybody has yet ported ld64/codesign to run natively on Linux but it has been possible for some time to run the Mac CLI dev tools under Linux using runtime shims like maloader [1] or its descendant Darling [2].

[0]: https://github.com/DHowett/theos

[1]: https://github.com/shinh/maloader

[2]: http://www.darlinghq.org/

cookerware on April 12, 2014 [–]

is it possible to run this on windows 7?

jevinskie on April 12, 2014 | [–]

maloader and Darling won't, they require Linux. LLVM works fine on Windows. I'm guessing the RoboVM front-end is also fairly portable. The effort to port ld64/codesign to Windows would probably be similar to the effort to port them to Linux.

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