theos VS darling

I am pretty sure everything you need is findable on https://theos.dev

i had been using “rootless=1” as per https://github.com/theos/theos/issues/685

The next step is to actually start making tweaks. Install a tool called Theos for your appropriate device. The installation wiki can be found here: https://github.com/theos/theos/wiki, please make sure to follow the appropriate platform instructions. After that, you are ready to start making tweaks, please follow a tweak development guide. (Here's one if you're lazy: https://icrazeios.com/kodey-tweak-guide/)

I followed this fix and that seemed to solve the permissions issue, but now I’m getting this.. lol

You can use Theos to build macOS, tvOS and iOS applications on Windows (through WSL). You won't have every Xcode functionality available to you, the most important one being the interface builder. However, it works quite well in my opinion and I have built a few applications with it.

You need to compile it with theos, if you don't want to do it yourself I can compile it for you later

This is why it's important to get apps from outside of the Apple App Store. Most free software app developers don't seem to distribute ipa files directly or publish via apt, instead opting to only publish source code as free software and then also publish on the Apple App Store. I tried but could never figure out how to compile an ipa file on iOS (Hopefully once this issue is resolve it will be easier.), and I don't have a Mac.

“A cross-platform build system for creating iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows programs.” - Theos.dev. I’m not sure I’d say it replaces Xcode, because the two serve different purposes, but you don’t need Xcode for tweak development. The difference between the two is that theos is catered specifically for tweak development whereas Xcode is not. That and Xcode is platform specific, as you mentioned.

There is actually a Wine-like transplier called Darling. The problem is that development is very slow because there is not as much need for MacOS programs on Linux, and there is a huge shortage of volunteers and manpower. And it has been rendered almost obsolete because Apple moved to ARM. Additionally 90% of Apple's API is closed source despite Apple claiming to champion open source.

Unfortunately not. Darling [0] is still at the point that it can only run command line applications. Only the most basic GUI applications are supported. That's still a massive accomplishment that I don't want to diminish, but it's nowhere near the point that WINE was at even quite a long time ago.

[0] https://www.darlinghq.org/

xcodebuild CLI to compile iOS apps without a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488

I wonder if there's opportunity for overlap with darling (https://www.darlinghq.org/) here, somewhat like using WINE on top of actual Windows.

Hi guys, just wanted to make a quick shoutout to Darling since not a lot people seem to know about it, which is a compatibility layer like Wine for Linux, but it allows for MacOS applications instead of Windows apps to be able to run on Linux!