What are my options? I was thinking of picking up an iPod Touch to play around with, and I'd like to code on it, but I don't have (nor do I intend to buy in the near future) a Mac. Aside from tricking my girlfriend into buying a MacBook, what are my options?

1. I have a Dell laptop (Core2 Duo processor). I haven't messed around with installing MacOS on a PC before, but is there any reason to believe the dev tools / iPhone SDK won't work on a zomgtehhax OS X?

2. Is there any ghetto equivalent of the iPhone dev tools for PC, or at least a compiler?

Thanks!

9/14/2008 3:47:13 PM

mac osx on vmware

9/14/2008 4:29:16 PM

You could maybe see if you could run OSX in a virtual machine....


Otherwise you're gonna have to do the whole OSX on a PC thing, which is another animal entirely and I dont think it'd be worth it for this.

[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM. Reason : ^ yep.]

9/14/2008 4:30:28 PM

you can probably get OSX installed pretty easily on an intel platform.

just google osx86 project, follow the wiki. It's a time consuming process and is not for the novice.

There is no way to develop for the iPhone outside of OSX. And frankly, you are still going to have problems running it on a ghetto install of OSX because of the required updates.

I just picked up a Mac Mini for like 650 bucks, put 4gb of ram in it and it works great as a dev box. You could try picking up a used mini for 350 or so, but make sure its an intel based mac, the PPC mac's dont support the dev tools.

9/14/2008 4:58:10 PM

Quote :

" the PPC mac's dont support the dev tools."

Not officially it doesn't, but the binaries are universal.

That's irrelevant though because you definitely want an Intel mac regardless.

9/14/2008 9:05:18 PM

not for the iphone they arent. the SDK will not work on a PPC mac.

9/14/2008 9:33:45 PM

Surprise, iPhone SDK also works on PowerPC Macs
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/03/10/surprise-iphone-sdk-also-works-on-powerpc-macs/

9/14/2008 10:57:34 PM

lol

pwnt by headlines

9/15/2008 12:11:36 PM