[darthcircuit]

You can run macOS in a docker container. There’s no hardware acceleration for gpu, but works well enough.

You can also try macinabox if you have unraid:

https://hub.docker.com/r/spaceinvaderone/macinabox

It’s probably the easiest way of setting up a Mac VM if you have unraid. I know there are similar options for qemu and kvm based hypervisors. If you have an amd gpu you should be able to pass it through.

[hellzbellz123]

But you can't distribute whatever you build legally as far as im aware. The apple sdks prevent you from shipping legally.

The only way atm is installing homebrew and using a gnu tool chain if I understand the license of the official sdks correctly?

[tomrod]

Tangible thing versus conceptual thing. License never stood a chance.

[mherrmann]

quickemu [1] is good at running macOS VMs.

1: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

[WildWeazel]

My only experience with docker is headless in CI. I do have AMD. I'll have to look into this. Thanks

[Cloudef]

Emulating mac or using mac SDKs on non apple devices is against apple's bullshit license though.

[freakynit]

BS needs to be countered with rejection.

[sagarm]

Best way to reject it is to ignore macOS.

[chongli]

If Apple finds out they’ll ban your developer certificates and then all installed copies of your app will stop working.

[Wowfunhappy]

Has this ever happened? Not revoking certificates, which they've certainly done for malware or e.g. iOS "signing services", but because a developer used non-Apple hardware.

[rayboy1995]

I am the dev of Pocket Squadron (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bombsight....) and a few years ago I tried to make a build for iOS due to many player requests. I did not have a mac so I setup a mac VM and a dev account to start making builds and see how big of a lift it would be. My account was banned unfortunately. Still no iOS build to this day, I'm probably missing out on a good bit of money.

[freakynit]

Could have just created a new account. As I said, BS needs to e dealt with rejection... rejection of their ban in this case.

[chongli]

I don’t know the answer to that but a quick search shows lots of examples of people complaining that their developer certificate has been revoked, demonstrating a willingness by Apple to revoke certificates if they believe the developer violated their terms of service. I doubt Apple would go out of their way to include language in the agreement that binds developers to their own sanctioned platform if they didn’t intend to enforce it.

[admax88qqq]

I would wager all of those are distributing malware.