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I have a problem with finding stuff about how to compile cordova apps from visual studio (desktop) on my macbook without parallels and similar things. I googled that stuff, but I found nothing relevant, or with parallels/vmware stuff.
I added some insight what I want to do in my comments, yet pasted it here:
nope, I mean, I have two devices: the desktop, where I have Windows 8.1 and a macbook pro mid 2012. And I want to (start a) build the cordova app from my desktop, but run it on my macbook (via iOS simulator). I don't want no dual booting, no virtualisation, just start the build from visual studio and finish the build on osx
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iOS Device x installed - this is the minimum iOS version supported as of Cordova 2.3. Devices that support at least iOS 5 include all iPad® models, iPhone® 3GS and above, and iPod® Touch 3rd Generation or later. In addition, to install apps onto a device, you must be a member of the iOS Developer Program from Apple.
Here are the steps:
Run the following command from the Terminal app on your Mac:
sudo npm install -g vs-mda-remote
sudo npm install -g ios-sim
To start up the agent, run the following command:
vs-mda-remote --buildDir <server-build-directory>
This will start the agent in build server mode. An additional command line parameter is required to start up the agent for personal use with the iOS Simulator that will be covered later.
If you are using the remote agent on a personal Mac (vs a shared Mac build server), you can configure the agent to support launching the iOS Simulator on your Mac from Visual Studio.
As mentioned previously, the ios-sim node module is required globally to enable starting up the iOS Simulator from Visual Studio.
The build server should then be started with the command line option --allowsEmulate=true:
vs-mda-remote --buildDir <server-build-directory> --allowsEmulate=true
When these requirements are met, the app can be deployed from Visual Studio to the simulator on the Mac running the agent.
For more details, the documentation contains a section called "Remote Build & Simulation Agent for iOS".
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