Is it just the iPhone simulator that is restricted to Intel only Mac's?

Question

I have read that the iPhone SDK (part of Xcode 3) is restricted to Mac\'s with the intel chipset. Does this restriction apply to only the simulator part of the SDK or the co

Answer 1

I have a Powerbook G4 running Leopard and would very much like to do dev on it

Not sure what sort of application you are developing, but if you jailbreak your iPhone, you can:

• develop applications using Ruby/Python/Java which won't require compiling at all
• compile on the phone(!), as there is an GCC/Toolchain install in Cydia - although I've no idea how long that'll take, or if you can simply take a regular iPhone SDK project and SSH it to the phone, and run xcodebuild)

You should be able to compile iPhone applications from a PPC machine, as you can compile PPC applications from an Intel Mac, and vice-versa, there shouldn't be any reason you can't compile an ARM binary from PPC.. Wether or not Apple include the necessary stuff with Xcode to allow this is a different matter.. The steps that Ingmar posted seem to imply you can..?