Hi. Yesterday there were a <news about opening Swift Build>. Does it open a road to building iOS fro...

# multiplatform

[Andrey Beryukhov]

Hi. Yesterday there were a news about opening Swift Build.
Does it open a road to building iOS from KMP without XCode or with Linux/Windows available?

[Mikolaj]

I don't think so, since Kotlin compiles down to objectiveC 😕 But I wish I am wrong 🙏

[Frank Bouwens]

(conjecture) My prediction is that even if you would be able to build Swift code on Linux/Windows;
There would still be a requirement for Apple hardware / software / account. Due to code-signing.
(iOS / Mac Apps needs to be signed, otherwise will be marked as possible malware)

[Leon Kiefer]

but still if signing is the only thing which must run on macos, we can run the rest of the build on a cheap linux host instead of expensive macos