Compiling and publishing, on an NON-Apple Mac

daverennerdaverenner Member Posts: 133
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Has anyone had any luck getting their game on the App store, by using a Hackintosh? I haven't tried it yet but i know that when you go to compile and publish using Corona it will not work if you have a hackingtosh so i wonder if that will be the same using GS.

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  • AfterBurnettAfterBurnett Member Posts: 3,474
    Good question. I had a Hackintosh and everything worked fine but I must admit I never tried any devving on it... be good to know!
  • StusAppsStusApps Member, PRO Posts: 1,352
    Be interesting to see. I shouldn't see why it wouldn't work. I believe corona compiles using your own xcode on the machine, gamesalad does not. So it should work ok, not sure about building things like the viewer on it, depends if xcode would work.
  • daverennerdaverenner Member Posts: 133
    Yeah, im almost ready to buy the GS and Apple dev licenses and man i will be upset if i can't use them.
    I had 2 macs (Mac Mini and a Macbook Pro) but had to sell them (needed the money) Now i have 2 Hackintoshes.
    I miss my Macs.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    God I really Hope so since Im in the same boat. it would really suck to put the work in on the GS game and spend the money and not be able to submit it. Im truly hoping my game takes off and i can afford to buy a real mac though. lol although i would imagine most app are not exactly get rich quick schemes. lol
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  • daverennerdaverenner Member Posts: 133
    Here is the link to the corona forum that talks about hackintosh. http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2009/12/17/note-hackintosh-users

    Maybe i should just go ahead and buy the GS and pay apple and find out for myself. I will need to soon anyway.
  • RHRH Member Posts: 1,079
    I'm pretty sure you can't. Sorry
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    Certainly possible, there have been app store releases that came from a hackintosh, in the long run a mini from ebay will be cheaper.
  • JamesZeppelinJamesZeppelin Member Posts: 1,927
    pretty sure Hunninkoenig's alien brick-out game was hackintosh start to finish

    (sorry about spelling if you're reading that)
  • AfterBurnettAfterBurnett Member Posts: 3,474
    He shouldn't have such a difficult name :P
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    @ daverenner
    If you goahead and do it please let me know. I prob can get access to a mac from a friend if i need to submit it from there i just can use it all the time.
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  • TwistedMechTwistedMech Member Posts: 408
    I have been doing all my dev GS work on a hackintosh machine with no issues. I used the Rebel-EFI setup during install of OSX (which I purchased from apple) and have never had any problems. All OS updates work.

    I have a macbook pro also but prefer to use a desktop with big screen/cpu for dev work.
  • RHRH Member Posts: 1,079
    My bad, apparently you can.
  • daverennerdaverenner Member Posts: 133
    Binary,
    I used empire efi for intial boot, then installed snow leopard. everything works without a single problem. i was just curious if it would actually compile. What motherboard are you using? I heard Rebel-EFI is picky.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    I personally used the Leo hazard distro....
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  • chosenonestudioschosenonestudios Member Posts: 1,714
  • chosenonestudioschosenonestudios Member Posts: 1,714
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Done, and at least i didnt start thread with that topic. lol
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  • chosenonestudioschosenonestudios Member Posts: 1,714
    tenrdrmer said:
    Done, and at least i didnt start thread with that topic. lol

    Very true haha, but yeah your idea is definately something to consider :D When I'm not too terribly busy, I'll give it a go. If you want to discuss this a little bit more....

    chosenonestudios(at)yahoo.com
  • daverennerdaverenner Member Posts: 133
    UPDATE. I got my stuff working on the hackintosh, and compiled a game that i can play on my iPod! Now i'm really amped about GS.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    sweet cause im getting ready to compile a game for testing on mine.
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