npx cap add ios - on windows

[baranelitez]

Description of the problem:
'npx cap add ios' won't add ios as a platform. Prints:
[error] Not running Mac OS X, can't add ios platform

I'd like to create the project files in Windows, and use OSX for just building.

Affected platform

• Android
• iOS
• electron
• web

OS of the development machine

• Windows
• macOS
• linux

Other information:

Capacitor version:
1.0.0-beta.17

node version:

npm version:

CocoaPods version:

Steps to reproduce:

Link to sample project:

[ffMathy]

Same here.

[rgolea]

@baranelitez @ffMathy you cannot compile nor create an iOS project on a Windows machine. You need XCode nor Cocoapods and they are available only for macOS.

[jcesarmobile]

But you can use cloud services to compile the native projects, so being able to add the iOS project from windows is a planned feature

[mlynch]

Adding to high priority as we will need to support this to enable Appflow's cloud package feature

[baranelitez]

@rgolea I know of Quasar and Unity engine can create xcode projects in a windows OS. So I don’t see why it’s not possible.