Can you Run Xcode in Linux

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Can you run Xcode in Linux   Mac OS X was based on BSD Unix  so is it possible    From what I have heard  there is a MonoDevelop plugin that has an iPhone simulator

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If you run VMware Player or Workstation  or maybe VirtualBox  I m not sure if it supports Mac OS X  but may   and then Mac OS X Server  Client can t legally be virtualized    Of course  in this case you are running XCode on OS X  but your host machine could be linux

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If you cannot shell out thousands of dollars for a decent Mac then there is an option to run OSX and XCode in the cloud   http   www macincloud com

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I think you need MonoTouch  not free   for that plugin   And no  there is no way to run Xcode on Linux   Sorry for all the bad news

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The easiest option to do that is running a VM with a OSX copy

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OSX is based on BSD  not Linux  You cannot run Xcode on a Linux machine

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Nope  you ve heard of MonoTouch which is a  NET mono environment for iPhone development  But you still need a Mac and the official iPhone SDK  And the emulator is the official apple one  this acts as a separate IDE and allows you to not have to code in Objective C  rather you code in c   It s an interesting project to say the least      EDIT  apparently  you can distribute on the app store now  early on that was a no go

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The low-level toolchain for Xcode  the gcc compiler family  the gdb debugger  etc   is all open source and common to Unix and Linux platforms   But the IDE--the editor  project management  indexing  navigation  build system  graphical debugger  visual data modeling  SCM system  refactoring  project snapshots  etc --is a Mac OS X Cocoa application  and is not portable

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If you want XCode on another OS  I suggest cloud computing  That way your app is being developed on a Mac and can be submitted to the App Store

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I really wanted to comment  not answer   But just to be precise  OSX is not based on BSD  it is an evolution of NeXTStep   The NeXTStep OS utilizes the Mach kernel developed by CMU   It was originally designed as a MicroKernel  but due to performance constraints  they eventually decided they needed to include the Unix portion of the API into the kernel itself and so a BSD-compatible  server   originally intended to process requests for BSD-compatible kernel messages  was moved into the kernel  making it a Monolithic kernel   It may be BSD compatible in the programming API  but it is NOT BSD   The rest of the OS involved ObjectiveC  under arrangements between Stepstone and Richard Stallman of GNU GCC  with a GUI based on a technology called  Display Postscript      sort of like an X Server  but with postscript commands   OS X changed Display Postscript to Display PDF  and increased the general hardware requirements 1000 fold  NeXT could run in 8-16MB  now you need GB    Due to the close marriage of GCC and Objective C and NeXT  your best bet at running XCode natively under Linux would be to do a port  if you can get ahold of the source - good luck  utilizing the GNUStep libraries   Originally designed for NextStep and then OpenStep compatibility  I ve heard they are now more-or-less Cocoa compatible  but I ve not played with any of it in almost 2 decades     Of course that only gets you as far as ObjC  not Swift  and I don t know if Apple is going to OpenSource it

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Nobody suggested Vagrant yet  so here it is  Vagrant box for OSX  vagrant init https   vagrant-osx nyc3 digitaloceanspaces com osx-sierra-0 3 1 box vagrant up   and you have a MACOS virtual machine  But according to Apple s EULA  you still need to run it on MacOS hardware  D But anywhere  here s one to all of you geeks who wiped MacOS and installed Ubuntu  D  Unfortunately  you can t run the editors from inside using SSH X-forwarding option

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It was weird that no one suggested KVM   It is gonna provide you almost native performance and it is built-in Linux  Go and check it out   you will feel like u are using mac only and then install Xcode there u may even choose to directly boot into the OSX GUI instead of Linux one on startup

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You can run Xcode on Linux NATIVELY using Darling   Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux  Once installed you can install Xcode via command-line developer tool following this link

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If you really want to use Xcode on linux you could get Virtual Box and install Hackintosh on a VM  Edit  Virtual Box Guest Additions is not supported with MacOS Movaje  You will want to use VMware https   www vmware com  https   hackintosh com

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