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Toolchain 3.0

Pelaez — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:50:13 +0000

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.

Click here to go to the instructions

Simple App Template

Pelaez — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:52:16 +0000

I decided I needed a template App for the toolchain, so here it is.

This is a template app that will make an empty app that does nothing but put your screen white. It’s made from a UIApplication subclass, a UIViewController subclass and a UIView subclass, so it’s pretty much ready for you to code your own view, add your own methods and turn it into something.

File: App Template (3.31KB)
added: 06/06/2009

What you need to have installed

Pelaez — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:02:22 +0000

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)*

Also, I use emacs to write my code, it has a very nice auto formatting for code, supports a lot of languages, and has a lot of shortcuts. You don’t need it at all, but I love it . The only thing is that it goes crazy when using .h files and setting @property’s, so for modifying I use nano.

*You’ll need to add mobile to the list of users who can use sudo. To do this, log in as super user, and then use the command visudo:

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$ su
$ [your password]
$ visudo

Then scroll down to where it says

1	root ALL = (ALL) ALL

And, below, add the same line but with mobile instead of root:

1	mobile ALL = (ALL) ALL

Building the iPhone 2.X Toolchain in Linux

Pelaez — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:47:48 +0000

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)

Building Toolchain

First thing you’ll want to do is go HERE, go to the Download sections, connect to the FTP as it says there.

Once there, go to “iPhone Toolchain VMWare Image/V3/” and download UpgradeToolchain2.tgz. Download it to your home (~/)

While it’s downloading, run this command to install the building tools:

1	$ sudo apt-get install build-essential bison flex

Now go to /usr and unpack the toolchain

1 2	$ cd /usr $ sudo tar -xzvf ~/UpgradeToolChain2.tgz

Now move to the toolchain directory and run the install script:

1 2	$ cd toolchain2 $ sudo ./build_20.sh

Now you need to add the gcc compiler to /usr/bin, the way I did it was to open two sudo windows and add a link:

1	$ sudo nautilus

That will open a nautilus window as root, do it twice. With one, go to /usr/toolchain2/pre/bin and with the other one go to /usr/bin. On the first one, right click arm-apple-darwin9-gcc and select “Make Link”, then copy that link to the second window, and remove the “Link to..” from the name.

Next you’ll need to make a link to /usr/toolchain2/sys/usr/include on /var, do the same as above.

And finally, a link to /usr/toolchain2/sys/System on /