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karthik jain
karthik jain

Reputation: 135

Building Expo app for IOS with windows

I was wondering if there was any way for me to build my Expo app with Windows. Whenever I run exp build:ios, I get the following warning:

Does not seem like WSL enabled on this machine. Download from the Windows app store a distribution of Linux, then in an admin powershell, please run:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem->Linux

and run the new Linux installation at least once

What app should I use for this? And even if I do it, will Expo allow me to build for IOS?

Alternatively, can I use a service like Microsoft Appcenter to build it for me?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 20113

Answers (3)

jhonatan_yachi
jhonatan_yachi

Reputation: 361

  1. Download Ubuntu from Windows Store

  2. Open powershell as administrator and paste Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

  3. Restart the computer, then run the command expo build:ios

Upvotes: 4

Khasky
Khasky

Reputation: 130

  1. Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

  1. Restart your computer when prompted.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Upvotes: 9

Adam Gilmore
Adam Gilmore

Reputation: 81

Expo builds all the binaries on their servers, therefore you can do this on any OS (including Windows). Some of the Expo tools require the Linux subsystem on Windows, therefore you need to install that, but then everything works correctly.

Upvotes: 5

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