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by lewisinc 2162 days ago
Continuous integration servers that aren't run on genuine Apple hardware?
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One can hope this will become eventually possible, but with the pace of PureDarwin as it is, I doubt it will before Apple migrates to ARM with custom instruction set additions.
Wouldn't you have to reverse-engineer and implement a LOT of closed-source APIs and libraries to get a full iOS toolchain going?
There is a project [1][2] to emulate iOS in QEMU. You can find more details about installation process and research itself in their articles [3][4].

[1] https://github.com/alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64

[2] https://github.com/alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64-tools

[3] https://alephsecurity.com/2019/06/17/xnu-qemu-arm64-1/

[4] https://alephsecurity.com/2019/06/25/xnu-qemu-arm64-2/

Perhaps if you package your code for MacPorts.
Using this for that would probably break terms of service just as much as a hackintosh would.
Depends the country you are in, a lot of countries have interoperability exceptions, so while a hackintosh might not be legal, something like this would.