Well friends, if you are planning to install Xcode 5 on on Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1 for iOS then you are here with complete solution. While it is much easy to develop apps for Linux and Windows on any platform, but developing software for Mac requires a SDK called XCode, designed and built by Apple specifically for Mac OS X.
Xcode is an extremely powerful set of software. It is not only a complete tool-set for developing Mac apps, but it is also an interface builder, testing application, IDE (integrated development environment ), and asset management toolkit. In this tutorial you will learn how to install Xcode 5 on Windows PC's. This is something unique to the people who are new to this topic. However, if you are insistent on installing Xcode 5 on Windows OS then this guide would be helpful to you. We will show you how to install Xcode 5 on a Windows PC by using Oracle VirtualBox.
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By using this process you can easily build-up and create basic apps on your Windows PC. Here the first step for you would be to have a virtual Box of MAC OS X on your Windows PC. We can say this method would be useful for learner as well. But then if you are a professional developer, you must go for buying Apple hardware with OS X and original app developer ID. You must use Xcode on your Apple hardware when you want to test the app on the real Apple device.
We are using Virtual Box here in this post but if you use a different virtual computer application, the process is much the same as this. Since Virtual Box is open source and free to use, kindly download it if you don't already have a copy installed.
We are using Virtual Box here in this post but if you use a different virtual computer application, the process is much the same as this. Since Virtual Box is open source and free to use, kindly download it if you don't already have a copy installed.
It's quite demanding process where you will need a standard PC to complete your process successfully. The minimum requirement to emulate a Mac using a Windows PC, you will need the following things.
Steps:
Kindly follow the steps given below install Xcode 5 on a Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1 for iOS SDK.
- A Dual Core Intel processor
- At least 2GB of RAM (4 GB+ recommended)
- Hardware Virtualization.
Steps:
Kindly follow the steps given below install Xcode 5 on a Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1 for iOS SDK.
- Download & Install Vmware or Virtual-Box on your computer.
- Later download the OSX Mavericks ISO
- Open Virtual Box and Click New as shown in figure below
- Enter Name =OSX, Type = Mac OS X, Version = Mac OS X (32 bit)
- Next select the size of RAM for the virtual machine. 1024 MB (1 GB) is a sufficient memory size for android to run on your computer.
- Now, Select and create the virtual hard drive.
- Later Select the Hardware File Type as VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image). It is always recommended to go for VDI in terms of ISO image.
- Now Selected the physical hard drive as Dynamically allocated.
- Now, allocate the Android file location and size from physical hard drive
- Your VM is now created. Just we need too mount the iso file downloaded before. To do that go to settings options choose storage and load the iso file as shown in the below image and click start.
- Just follow the later steps of OSX boot as Wizard and OSX in Oracle Virtual will be installed
- Now, Head over to your safari browser in Virtualbox and open official Apple App store. Use your Apple ID to login into App store.
- After login in search box type 'xcode' to search for it's package. It will show you various different related apps.
- Locate Xcode and click on 'Free' and 'Download' and then Press Ok button to start downloading process.
- After completing download process you will need to open xcode and provide your root credential by entering name and password.
- Congratulation! We have successfully installed latest Xcode version on Windows 7 and 8 PC using virtualization software.
Author : Abdul Razzak
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Bio: Abdul Razzak is one of the top students of Mahatma Gandhi University with excellent GPA throughtout its graduation. He is passionate towards network topology management and highly challenged troubleshooting issues. Come and meet him here.
Bio: Abdul Razzak is one of the top students of Mahatma Gandhi University with excellent GPA throughtout its graduation. He is passionate towards network topology management and highly challenged troubleshooting issues. Come and meet him here.
