After some further research my journey has led me back to windows or linux.  I have a PC, and I should stick with what it runs best right?

There are a few options out there for people that want to utilize a PC to develop for the iPhone, but I can almost guarantee that none of the apps developed using these tools will see the light of day in the Apple Appstore.  Regardless this might be a good starting point for learning.

I’m starting to see VMware as my savior as much as I’ve been trying to avoid virtualization.  More on that in a later.

This tutorial by PJ Cabrera misses out on a lot of the features that the Apple SDK provides, but it’s a working solution for Windows and Linux developers.  I’m already feeling a bit more in my element.  This was released last summer, but unfortunately this was not a major interest of mine at the time.  The basic premise of this method is using the Eclipse C Development Toolkit, an open source project, to release applications for jail broken phones.  Not an ideal solution, but again, it could be a good launch point to start learning the process of writing code in C.

Another option I ran across in my quest is called winChain.  At first glance it looks like the bees knees for installing the environment and getting coding, but after reading the comments below the guide it seems far from simple.  Another cause for concern is the last update date – December 7th 2007.  The iPhone OS has evolved significantly since the last update of this tool, so it gives me cause for hesitation.  I think I’ll try the final route I want to look at – I’d like to develop the way Apple intends people to develop rather than hacking together something similar.

Back to the doldrums of the osx86 project.  This is basically the same as my Hackint0shing article minus the commitment of altering my native partitioning/OS.

To be continued . . . VMWare and BEYOND!

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