points by shepherdjerred 4 days ago | 0 comments
You have really high standards for comments.
My intent was to inform others that you do not need Apple hardware to build software targeting Apple platforms. This is a very prevalent belief as if Apple has some “magic” that cannot run on other platforms.
I did not/have not polished this project because it works for my use cases.
Again, the original version of the project is used by my former employer who uses it in their package manager.
[–] bel8 4 days ago
[–] shepherdjerred 3 days ago
No, cross-compiling worked even before AI.
Even if code signing stops working you can still cross-compile code for macOS which eliminates the need for a CI fleet of Apple hardware
[–] shepherdjerred 3 days ago
To follow up, this project started in 2014: https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross
[–] bel8 2 days ago
The fact that the project started in 2014 and it took Apple 8 years to support code signing outside of macOS tells you everything you need to know about how much they care.
[–] bel8 2 days ago
cross compiling? yes.
code signing before 2022? nope.
There's little point is cross compilation if you still need a mac to code sign. And that was only possible in 2022 onwards.
rcodesign only made that possible circa 2022.
And it still a bunch of hacks that are only made practical because AI can stomach retrying the glue all day until it works.
And I don't see any official Apple support in their docs so this can be broken on a whim.
Just this day there was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50356944
> macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
They break things on a whim.