It is required to have a mac to build iphone application or we can use VirtualBox to emulate the MAC OS X platform and do the same task ? Is there any license restriction ?
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It is required that you be running OS X and you can't virtualize OS X on non-Apple hardware (by terms in the EULA, not for any technical reasons). Therefore it follows that you need a Mac computer to build iPhone software. See this question and answer for a discussion on virtualizing OS X: Is there a way to evaluate OSX without purchasing Macintosh hardware? |
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Yes, you would have to use a Mac computer. Running MacOSX as a virtual machine would be against Apple's licensing terms. |
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If you want to comply with all Apple's license restrictions, then, yes, you need a Mac to build and sign iOS apps using Apple's latest SDK tools. |
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