macOS Remote Development using XCode locally

Hey there,

Is it possible to use the XCode IDE to code but have it compiled on a linux machine?

The current setup is as follows. The Linux machine has AFS installed, which I have on my mac as well, thus I see my linux home directory as a network drive. So, I ssh into the linux machine checkout the Code using subversion, add the checked out files to an XCode project, edit them there, but can't compile. I need to ssh back to the linux machine to compile the Code. Can this process be automated?

I think I read this was possible, at least with emacs, bit I would like to use the XCode IDE

cheers,

luksen

yes writing a bash script would probably work.. but I was wondering if one could still use XCode as a full IDE.. ie with debugging etc. and compile from within XCode (but have it somehow ssh to the linux machine and use its compiler)

as it is now xcode is just a more or less bloated text editor..

maybe this is just not possible?

Ok thanks, that was what I was expecting...

So is there an IDE with which I could do that? Maybe Eclipse?

update

I remembered recently that I posted this question here a long time ago and wanted to state how i solved the problem

I eventually added a shell script target that would do

ssh user@host "cd path/to/makefile;make"

this needs ssh keys to have passwordless access to the host but it has worked ever since. you do lose the debugging functionalities (but you loose this anyway when using makefiles) but at least you can build from xcode using command-Q