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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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
mac::apps::launch
Launch(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Launch(3)
NAME
Mac::Apps::Launch - Mac module to launch /quit applications
SYNOPSIS
use Mac::Apps::Launch;
my @apps = qw(R*ch Arch MPGP);
my $path = "HD:System Folder:Finder";
LaunchApps([@apps], 1) or warn $^E; # launch and switch to front
LaunchApps([@apps]) or warn $^E; # launch and don't switch
LaunchApps($app, 1) or warn $^E; # launch and switch to front
LaunchSpecs($path, 1) or warn $^E; # use path instead of app ID
QuitApps(@apps) or warn $^E; # quit all @apps
QuitAllApps(@apps) or warn $^E; # quit all except @apps
IsRunning('MACS'); # returns boolean for whether
# given app ID is running
SetFront('MACS') or warn $^E; # set Finder to front
Hide('MACS') or warn $^E; # hide Finder
Show('Finder', 1) or warn $^E; # show Finder (1 == use name)
DESCRIPTION
Simply launch or quit applications by their creator ID. The Finder can be quit in this way, though it cannot be launched in this way.
This module is used by many other modules.
This module as written does not work with MacPerls prior to 5.1.4r4.
"Hide" and "Show" do not currently work on Mac OS X.
Apps that don't have signatures under Mac OS X currently aren't handled, except with LaunchSpecs().
"SetFront" and "IsRunning" can take a four-char creator ID ('MACS'), a bundle ID ('com.apple.Finder'), or a path
(/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app). They both optionally take a second parameter which affirms that the data is indeed a path (for
those rare cases where a path might possibly look like a creator ID or bundle ID ... you never know).
"IsRunning" will return the PSN of the application if it is running, which you can then use for targetting the app, or converting to a PID
(with "Mac::Processes::GetProcessPID()"), to send signals to it.
EXPORT
Exports functions "QuitApps", "QuitAllApps", and "LaunchApps", "IsRunning", "LaunchSpecs", "SetFront", "Hide", "Show".
AUTHOR
Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>, http://pudge.net/
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Chris Nandor. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.18.2 2007-01-03 Launch(3)