Notes: ios development from windows

[danwalmsley]

the instructions here are missing a lot of information:

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-maui/blob/main/docs/ios/pair-to-mac.md

Mac needs to have mono installed, installed using environment menu on rider.

Mac needs to have xamarin sdk installed (I think) installed using rider.

ios workload needs to be installed both on the windows machine and the mac and need to be same sdk and workload versions

dotnet workload install ios

[danwalmsley]

As usual MSFT break the sdk each build:

6.0.400 sdk on windows, ios workload gives you version: 15.4.446-ci.-release-6-0-4xx.446

but on osx, it gives 15.4.447 (they are not compatible)

0>C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.iOS.Sdk\15.4.446-ci.-release-6-0-4xx.446\tools\msbuild\iOS\Xamarin.Shared.targets(1707,3): Error : Could not find Microsoft.iOS in /usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk/15.4.446-ci.-release-6-0-4xx.446/.

workaround by copying the macos sdk version folder and renaming to match the windows one. (this looks like msft published a nightly build or something)