07-24-2013
If you can figure out the binary object file format for iOS apps and you can write a program to cross compile software that you write and link it into that object file format that will run on your Windows system, then you can write iOS apps on Windows. After you have done that, you could create an iOS app to run on your iPad or iPhone to edit, compile, and link software written on your iPad or iPhone to build apps to run on your iPad or iPhone.
If you want any help from Apple to make any of this easy for you, I doubt that they'll oblige. I assume Apple wants to sell Macs for iOS app development. And, I assume that Apple doesn't want to have to worry about the changes that happen in every Windows release that would make it a pain for them to develop, sell, and maintain a tool that runs on Windows that would provide a cross compilation environment for iOS apps as a product. Or, more likely, Apple hasn't been shown that doing so would be profitable.
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SYMLINK(3) 1 SYMLINK(3)
symlink - Creates a symbolic link
SYNOPSIS
bool symlink (string $target, string $link)
DESCRIPTION
symlink(3) creates a symbolic link to the existing $target with the specified name $link.
PARAMETERS
o $target
- Target of the link.
o $link
- The link name.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.0 | |
| | |
| | This function is now available on Windows plat- |
| | forms (Vista, Server 2008 or greater). |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Create a symbolic link
<?php
$target = 'uploads.php';
$link = 'uploads';
symlink($target, $link);
echo readlink($link);
?>
NOTES
Note
Windows users should note that this function will only work if the system you run PHP from is Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 or
newer. Windows versions prior to that do not support symbolic links.
SEE ALSO
link(3), readlink(3), linkinfo(3).
PHP Documentation Group SYMLINK(3)