macos-virtualbox VS osxcross

I think VMware is the simplest way to go, but it looks like VirtualBox will do up to macOS Catalina if using this script.

From a Linux box, I try to create a hackintosh VM in Virtualbox, I tried https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/blob/master/macos-guest-virtualbox.sh but the boot hangs on `UEFI shell`:

I've tested this script. It doesn't support the latest versions, but it worked

I installed myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox and it's running fine (except still having issues with new apple accounts logging into imessage, old ones work fine).

Personally, I have found this helpful to set up macOS VMs on real Macs.

If you actually have MacOS device and can install Xcode and so on then you can proceed here and read the instructions.

Have you considered using a dockerized osxcross cross compiler toolchain in your CI? Granted it is a bit clunky to setup...

Technically it's possible, but possibly not legal:

https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross

> Please ensure you have read and understood the Xcode license terms before continuing.

According to the EULA you may only use the SDK on Apple-branded computers. But you can use Linux to cross compile to Apple.

is there a way to cross compile without vms? something similar to https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross?

If you figure out how to get SDL working, one possibility is to develop on Linux, then use mingw-w64 to cross compile from Linux to windows, then use osxcross to cross-compile from Windows to OSX.

Thank you osxcross for creating the path forward

This is actually a solved problem, using osxcross[0]. The experience is honestly very smooth, and we don't require any apple proprietary binaries. The only thing apple-proprietary is their SDK (containing the header files for compiling, and tbd files for linking), which can be downloaded from apple's website (at least if you have a developer account), or from various GitHub projects archiving them.

[0]: https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross