Show HN: Building iOS apps on Windows, without a Mac

Posted by simonesilve 7 hours ago

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Comment by simonesilve 7 hours ago

Hi HN, I'm Simone, the author.

OpenFruit builds unmodified Xcode projects into signed iOS apps natively on Windows, without a Mac.

The hardest part was Apple's own Swift macros, which only ship as macOS binaries. You can find more technical details here: https://ssilvestri15.github.io/openfruit-site/engineering.ht...

It's experimental and my first open-source project, built with a Claude Code, Codex and Gemini