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Luigi Saggese
Luigi Saggese

Reputation: 5379

Monotouch and Hackintosh

I have developed an app on monotouch-5.2.5 evaluation version. Now i want to deploy on Apple Store and to do it i have bought a full monotouch version (5.2.10) and i have installed all certificate and provisioning profile. When try to build my app i have the following problem:

mtouch exited with code 99

i have this configuration:

Do could it be a incompatibity problem beetween HACKINTOSH and MonoTouch? ...This it'll seem strange because i've develop on it without problems.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2252

Answers (4)

AnthonyLambert
AnthonyLambert

Reputation: 8830

The Xamarin.Mac / Xamarin.Ios licencing does some kind of hash of the Mac hardware to give your machine a unique ID. This locks the MonoTouch licence to your machine. I know previously when people have changed hard drives etc. it has broken the key, this is because they use the Hard drives serial number as part of the hash. They may also use hardware MAC addresses and other IDs.

I imagine something they use in a Genuine Mac is not available in your Hackintosh.

Upvotes: 3

user1878183
user1878183

Reputation: 21

I have a Hackintosh, I just encountered the same problem, and I also can not login app store, because ethernet card not built-in, I modified the DSDT to complete built-in, it is OK.

Upvotes: 2

sinsro
sinsro

Reputation: 915

Xamarin states on their website they do not support Hackintosh. They claim it is too hard to ensure their compiler works properly in such a system, but they do not stop there. They also make it impossible to install a key on a Hackintosh or on a Mac running in a VM!

I can understand they wont provide support for issues happening in such an environment, but to force developers to buy a Mac is a bad move. Especially considering a lot of their customers choose Monotouch exactly because they are comfortable with Windows/.net already and are not eager to migrate 100% to Mac OS, it is pretty obvious many prefer to work in a VM or use their existing PC hardware.

I used the trial version in a VM without any issues whatsoever, so whatever technical issues they might be worried about seems irrelevent. So I think this is more a political issue than a technical one.

I can only hope they will change their policy, or that someone gets annoyed enough to crack their compiler so that we can all use it the way we prefer.

Upvotes: 2

Peyman
Peyman

Reputation: 3077

It is obvious that you need to contact Xamarin Support because they know better whether this is the exact problem or not. but....

A Statement in Xamarin Page demonstrated that it is impossible to use MonoDevelop/MonoTouch on Hackintosh.

I have some misunderstands that I need to know: 1. What do you mean building? (Bundle/Deploy to device/Build on Simulator) 2. Did you tried deploying to device?

I googled this issue and there are many that had this error code, but their problem was MonoTouch Activation, I think you can reactivate MonoTouch to make sure. (if you want to build on device)

But I do not attribute this error code to Hackintosh, because one of my friends-who is working with Unity (Mono) on Hackintosh, can easily build on device.

Regards, Peyman Mortazavi

Upvotes: 1

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