Comments on: Will Xcode Be Coming To Windows Soon?

By: Giancarlo

Giancarlo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:38:44 +0000

check it out… search for iPC x86. Runs MAC OSX in your PC. Forget windows and microsoft. Run xCode. Happy coding. pass it along!

By: Lejf

Lejf — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:22:21 +0000

Well, Isn’t it c++? I would like to use c++ as I program in that language.

By: evildave

evildave — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:18:13 +0000

Even if Apple did produce Xcode for Windoze (right after pigs invented an airplane and hell’s outdoor hockey season got into full swing), Micro$uck would just ‘accidentally’ break it. Again and again. Routinely as a part of normal software development and testing. Maybe publicize ’security holes’ in the underlying APIs that ONLY affect Xcode as well. As a ‘public service’. All things that they do for Apple’s other products, as well as anybody else who nominally ‘competes’ with America’s favorite monopoly abuser.

By: DaveMora

DaveMora — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:31:06 +0000

I do not think that Apple will ever allow you to write for xcode in a windows environment.

If I can run xcode on my windows box I would not have a reason to buy a Mac or even a Mac-Mini.

Apple is not a software company they are a hardware company. Software is just the bonus thing they give us. That is the reason their applications do not have any type of DRM.

But, xcode in a windows box would be nice. Because after all. I am a PC liviging in a Mac World.

#my2cents

By: blabla

blabla — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:14:43 +0000

xcode for windows? to do what?? applications for mac? are you dumb? and test them where? in a virtual machine?
First of all, xcode cannot compare with the flexibility and power of visual studio. someone above said microsuck visual studio and wanted eclipse. Eclipse and all java based environments are just as stupid as them not being response on a 3 GHZ machine.
Get real. Pfff, dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

By: Shahed

Shahed — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:31:35 +0000

What about GNUStep and its dev tools on Windows ?

I am trying to get into iPhone development, and see GNUStep as a
good way to get familiar with Cocoa etc.

Who says Cocoa cant run on windows ? GNUSteps implementation may be buggy on windows, but it can be used as a stepping stool before investing in a Mac (Yes I plan to purchase a Mini)

If XCode was released with support for GUNStep or whatever implementation of the OpenStep frameworks, it would be just GREAT !!!

(But then I wont invest in a Mac, so apple would lose out…)

By: ZeDD2006

ZeDD2006 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:14:41 +0000

I never got eclipse to work on my mac box. I remember reading a article about steve wanting more applications developed for mac, mainly games, because they rulled the gaming industry before he was kicked out. If xCode was ported to windows, what do you think would happen to the future of games? most companies use Microsucks visual studio to create games, very very few of them dont use it. But if they were given an development suite that runs both on linux, windows AND mac, bam…they just increased there revenue of games, linux users want games. Mac users want games. This is where xcode would be the best solution, either that or microsfot releases visual studio for mac, which i dont see that EVER happening, but i could be wrong. but one the of the 2 need to happen.

By: VictorTarsus

VictorTarsus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:01:38 +0000

I can’t really see Apple releasing Xcode on the Crapdows OS. Besides as mentioned previously, what self respecting Windows Developer want with Xcode? Even if they wanted to get into the development of Software for the Mac, a Mini is by far cheaper than most commercial grade developer geared Windows boxes.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:45:01 +0000

I think the only way Xcode would come to Windows is to support the development of native iPhone apps.

I have a Windows PC and have an interest in writing apps for the iPhone. I’m not however going to plunk down $1,100 for a MacBook just to write iPhone apps. Apple will need to have a Windows-based IDE (whatever it is) to ensure the widest possible developer base for the iPhone.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:45:11 +0000

Don’t forget, Apple also made AirPort Setup Assistant for Windows too…

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By: Parvenu74

Parvenu74 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:33:31 +0000

What would be more compelling to developers: XCode on Windows making applications for Windows and/or Mac OS X, or XCode on Leopard which creates Universal apps which can run on Mac OS, Windows, and possibly even Linux?

The territory to conquer is the business desktop, and right now I think an impediment to that is Microsoft’s entrenched position with Active Directory and other enterprise/directory management tools. Sure, it sounds nice to start swapping out Macs for aging WinXP boxes, but how will the new Mac boxes fit into the group policy schemes and play well with the prevailing directory management/security scheme?

Developers are certainly a boon for your platform, but you need to get the network admins on board too, and for that you’ll need to either make Leopard integrate with A/D like it was designed to be a native client, or you’ll need to create an entire enterprise management replacement with a stupid-easy, and error-resistant migration path for enterprises with tens of thousands, if not millions of users.

By: scott lewis

scott lewis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:06:12 +0000

As one of the “dime a dozen” Mac developers, I have to say it’s unlikely Xcode for Windows would be released. It’s a good IDE, and I really like most of it, but it is intimately tied to Mac technologies, most notably Obj-C and the Cocoa frameworks. In the Windows world it would compete with quite a few very good IDE’s that already have a good following.

I think every Mac developer keeps hoping Apple will release a version of Xcode that would allow cross-platform compilation, so that the code we write for Macs would work under Windows as well. This also seems unlikely due to a large number of issues.

I think all us developers continue to hope Apple will unlock the iPhone to some degree in 2008. That’s our best chance to reach a wider market with our expertise.

By: Halfactivist

Halfactivist — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:01:38 +0000

I don’t think Xcode will be released for Windows,
no, i don’t even think it exists.
This is a dream since the cancellation of Yellow Box for Windows.
Xcode is an *step based application, but none of QT for Windows, Safari for Windows, iTunes (even fo osx) are.
So, if apple had Yellow Box for windows still alive somewhere, I think they’d use it for their software…but they don’t.
Therefore, they’d need to recreate an Aqua looking application for Xcode like they did for Safari?
But, that’d suppose there is no cocoa etc for Windows? So what would be the point of Xcode for Windows?

Anyway, creating Xcode for Windows wouldn’t serve Mac OS X, because that would mean that Windows centered developers would develop Windows centered applications that would also run on Mac OS X because their original focus is Windows.

If it really happens, then that would mean Steve Jobs and consorts have decided they have definitely lost the software game they started with NeXT.

By: MCJE

MCJE — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:32:48 +0000

Maybe Apple should just put the source code (or as much as it legally can) for Xcode under the GPL instead of porting it, then just stand back and see what the developers do. It may be ported to Windows, it may not. The worst I see happening is that developers have more control of their tools.

By: sjmills

sjmills — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:44:25 +0000

Apple needs to stop screwing around with Windows and phones and put engineers back on Carbon.

By: Richard Hyde

Richard Hyde — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:51:13 +0000

I think Andre is right, the next thing we’ll see from Apple for Windows is iChat. It would be free, include most of the new effects from the new Leopard which where demoed at the WWDC and, most importantly, be released the same time as iChat for iPhone.

“You want to IM from your iPhone, sure use just get your mates to install iChat for Windows”. It’s a shame that the iPhone is missing a front camera for video calls, please Mr Jobs can you add one along with 3G for the European version?

By: Andre Da Costa

Andre Da Costa — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:23:01 +0000

I do not agree I believe the next Apple software to be released for Windows is iChat. It just makes sense,

By: WraithX

WraithX — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:35:39 +0000

I must say – I would be blown away if this happened. It would be a masterful move by Apple.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:17:44 +0000

The applications Apple has brought to Windows are there only because it gets people using Apple hardware. iTunes is there because of the iPod, and so is QuickTime (even though QuickTime has been available for Windows for a long time, I’d argue that the only reason it’s there now is for iTunes movie/video codecs, namely h.264). Plus, Xcode 3.0 has been rewritten using Obj-C 2.0, which is Cocoa-exclusive. The reasons Apple hasn’t ported Cocoa to Windows have been listed in many more places than one. And the iPhone certainly isn’t going to influence Apple to bring Xcode to Windows either: it’s OS X at heart.