This is a very small guide to create .deb packages for your apps. You’ll need a system with dpkg installed, I’m guessing you can do it on the iDevice, but I do it on Linux.
I found out that the iPhoneDevOnLinux team updated their toolchain for 3.0.
It’s really easy, what you need is the iPhone SDK 3.0 dmg and the 3.0/3.0.1 firmware and follow the instructions on their googlecode, and I got it working really fast.
Please note that I haven’t tested it yet, I just successfully built it.
This is what I recommend you have installed for developing.
- Linux, I have Ubuntu 9.04
- The Toolchain 2.0 with the latest headers, on Linux.
- Saurik’s ldid (on Linux and on the iPhone, in case you have trouble with any of them).
- sudo (you’ll need to install this on the iPhone, on linux it comes by default)*
This is to build a 2.0 toolchain, to build a 3.0 toolchain, go here.
I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 RC after destroying Debian by adding an Ubuntu Source and updating everything (not good), so I’m about to build the toolchain again.
Since my blog is heading to iPhone/Pod development, I think this is a good start 
I’ve been using this to build SBSettings toggles (will post a template and a tut later) and I’ve had no problems, but I haven’t tested it too much.
(BTW, I got the instructions from here and enhanced them a _little_ bit)
Future awesome computer scientist, ex-hardcore gamer (regular gamer now), sniper, gadget lover, iPhone Dev.
