Wish B4i IDE to run on native Macintosh

techknight · Oct 5, 2016

I think there was a thread here before as a wishlist on having B4i running natively on the Mac without a virtual machine/parallels, But it was written in .NET which wasnt available on the mac.

Until now:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-launches-its-net-distribution-for-linux-and-mac/

Might be worth looking into!

Erel · Oct 6, 2016

.Net Core only includes non-ui stuff. It will not help with porting the IDE to Mac.

LWGShane · Oct 6, 2016

@Erel - What about Xamarin? I would love B4X even more if it were cross-platform. (Also, one less reason to stay on Windows!)

Erel · Oct 6, 2016

Mono / Xamarin will not help as the IDE is a WPF application.

LWGShane · Oct 6, 2016

Erel said:
Mono / Xamarin will not help as the IDE is a WPF application.

How about this:

Move license verification to command line compilers (This will make the command line compilers completely independent from the IDEs.)
Create a command line compiler for B4i that integrates OS specific requirements like iOS 10's entitlements.

This would allow the community the ability to create cross-platform IDEs.

Erel · Oct 6, 2016

There is a Mac / Linux version of B4J command line builder: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/60923/#content