Local network builds?

[neil-119]

We have a Mac “server” in the same network as our Windows workstations. Some of us use an iPhone, so I’m wondering if there’s a timeline to have remote builds on our OS X machine as opposed to Circle CI? It would be a huge development boost for us.

Further details:
Our main development environment is Windows.
A Mac exists on the same local network. Xcode is installed. Currently we have to do frequent unnecessary git commits just to synchronize between the two. We are unable to use Circle CI due to financial and technical limitations.

[MrSnoozles]

@neil-119 I'm about to try the same. Have you started digging deeper into how to do this?

[neil-119]

@MrSnoozles No luck, unfortunately. Recently, I hooked up our on-premise MacBook Mini M1 to Azure Pipelines (cheaper than GitHub Actions) and kicked off an iOS build to TestFlight every time a PR is merged. We kind of do all our development on Android and then check to make sure iOS is also working, which it usually is. Not an ideal solution but works for us.

[MrSnoozles]

Okay, thanks for the heads up. Don't know yet when I will look into it, but if I find any usable information I will share them here.

[PetroSuch]

Hi, do you have any information about build on the other machine ?
i am looking for how to build my app remotely, but i dont want to use CircleCI,
So, i want to create my own server, like CircleCI.
Does can anybody help me with that ?

[neil-119]

You can create your own server / build agent with either Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions. Both of them can connect to your machine, even if you have them sitting in the office behind a NAT.

[PetroSuch]

@neil-119, Please , could you tell me more about How i can create my own server for remote build ?
i have virtual machine with Windows 10, can i using it, for remote building ?
for example, i have an emulator on my local computer, and i want to build my app on other machine (server) and install application on my local emulator