MacOSX-SDKs VS osxcross

Compare MacOSX-SDKs vs osxcross and see what are their differences.

MacOSX-SDKs

A collection of those pesky SDK folders: MacOSX10.1.5.sdk thru MacOSX11.3.sdk (by phracker)

osxcross

Mac OS X cross toolchain for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Android (Termux) (by tpoechtrager)
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MacOSX-SDKs osxcross
5 23
2,485 2,731
- -
0.0 5.5
over 1 year ago about 1 month ago
C++
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

MacOSX-SDKs

Posts with mentions or reviews of MacOSX-SDKs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-01.
  • PureDarwin
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2022
  • Fig now supports JetBrains IDEs
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2022
    We are making really good progress and will have a prototype in the next month or so. See the Github issues for Linux[1] and Windows[2]

    [0] https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs/blob/master/MacOSX10...

    [1] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/34

    [2] https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/35

  • I've collated and uploaded a load of Xcode SDKs on GitHub
    3 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 Nov 2021
    Ah, really? :/ I was only trying to help as I’ve needed some in the past and the repos I’ve found before have been up for years (eg https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs) with no apparent issues, but may not have had the latest SDKs. I assume if Apple had an issue they’d contact me? Of course I’d remove it immediately if asked.
  • Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2021
    Another approach for this is to explore the format through Apple's tools for building dictionaries – as they still provide a "Dictionary Development Kit" in Xcode's downloadable "Additional Tools" package (which has documentation for the XML format).

    It turns out that dictionary bundles are entirely supported by system APIs in CoreServices! The APIs are private, but Apple accidentally shipped a header file with documentation for them in the 10.7 SDK [1].

    [1] https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs/blob/master/MacOSX10...

  • Zig 0.8.0 Released!
    11 projects | /r/programming | 4 Jun 2021
    You still need the target SDK extracted from XCode: https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs

osxcross

Posts with mentions or reviews of osxcross. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MacOSX-SDKs and osxcross you can also consider the following projects:

icu - The home of the ICU project source code.

mold - Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠

kui - A hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development

eShopOnContainers - Cross-platform .NET sample microservices and container based application that runs on Linux Windows and macOS. Powered by .NET 7, Docker Containers and Azure Kubernetes Services. Supports Visual Studio, VS for Mac and CLI based environments with Docker CLI, dotnet CLI, VS Code or any other code editor. Moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop.

dictionary-api

fltk-rs - Rust bindings for the FLTK GUI library.

xcgo - Golang cross-platform builder docker image with CGo and other tooling

Xcode-Simulator-SDKs - iOS 8.0 -> 15.0 and watchOS 2.0 -> 8.0 simulator SDKs, taken from Xcode.

glibc_version_header - Build portable Linux binaries without using an ancient distro

binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool

docker-go-mingw - Docker image for building Go binaries with MinGW toolchain