Can you Run Xcode in Linux?

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Mohit Deshpande picture Mohit Deshpande · Mar 9, 2010 · Viewed 268.2k times · Source

Can you run Xcode in Linux? Mac OS X was based on BSD Unix, so is it possible?

From what I have heard, there is a MonoDevelop plugin that has an iPhone simulator.

Answer

cdespinosa picture cdespinosa · Mar 9, 2010

The low-level toolchain for Xcode (the gcc compiler family, the gdb debugger, etc.) is all open source and common to Unix and Linux platforms. But the IDE--the editor, project management, indexing, navigation, build system, graphical debugger, visual data modeling, SCM system, refactoring, project snapshots, etc.--is a Mac OS X Cocoa application, and is not portable.

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