For Windows iPhone Would-Be Developers: Does this interest you?

[Turner_]

wow amazing job! hasnt tried it yet but i already tried to make the toolchain and failed in the last step- I hope it will work now!

anyway, dont put too much work for it my friend, as in 2 mounts the official SDK will be release anyway.

but i saw both of your windows-apps and they both very impressive... gg!

[jvoni]

Okay! First off I have to thank you so much for pulling these tools together! I have been so lost with any kind of Windows toolchain so far!

However, when I try to 'make' my app I get an error in cygwin: "make: *** No rule to make target '/iphone-apps/FirstApp/Info.plist', needed by '/FirstApp.app'. Stop."

Any ideas?

[Drakenza]

@jvoni: Happens to me too... Are you sure you put all the files in "/iphone-apps/FirstApp"? If you can't figure it out, try moving the Info.plist somewhere temporarily, building, and then copying it to "/FirstApp.app". Also, editing the Makefile can probably fix this somehow. I'll look into it.

[liquid]

Hey Drakenza do you have any idea about the "no wifi" issue that many users have?
I personnaly ( and many many others) tried ALL the posible solution guides with no luck!

Thanks in advance!

[NetMage]

Can you post your Makefile? Where did it come from?

[Drakenza]

@NetMage: This is my makefile for a Hello World application I wrote.

INFOPLIST_FILE=Info.plist
SOURCES=
	main.m 
	TestApp.m

CC=arm-apple-darwin-gcc
CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall
LD=$(CC)
#LDFLAGS=-Wl,-syslibroot,/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly -I/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/include -lobjc -ObjC -framework CoreFoundation -framework Foundation -framework CoreGraphics -framework GraphicsServices -framework UIKit -framework LayerKit
LDFLAGS=-lobjc -framework CoreFoundation -framework Foundation -framework UIKit -framework LayerKit

# DEFINE THESE
PRODUCT_NAME=TestApp
SRCROOT=/iphone-apps/Test

WRAPPER_NAME=$(PRODUCT_NAME).app
EXECUTABLE_NAME=$(PRODUCT_NAME)
SOURCES_ABS=$(addprefix $(SRCROOT)/,$(SOURCES))
INFOPLIST_ABS=$(addprefix $(SRCROOT)/,$(INFOPLIST_FILE))
OBJECTS=
	$(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(filter %.c,$(SOURCES))) 
	$(patsubst %.cc,%.o,$(filter %.cc,$(SOURCES))) 
	$(patsubst %.cpp,%.o,$(filter %.cpp,$(SOURCES))) 
	$(patsubst %.m,%.o,$(filter %.m,$(SOURCES))) 
	$(patsubst %.mm,%.o,$(filter %.mm,$(SOURCES)))
OBJECTS_ABS=$(addprefix $(CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR)/,$(OBJECTS))
APP_ABS=$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/$(WRAPPER_NAME)
PRODUCT_ABS=$(APP_ABS)/$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)

all: $(PRODUCT_ABS)

$(PRODUCT_ABS): $(APP_ABS) $(OBJECTS_ABS)
	$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(PRODUCT_ABS) $(OBJECTS_ABS)

$(APP_ABS): $(INFOPLIST_ABS)
	mkdir -p $(APP_ABS)
	cp $(INFOPLIST_ABS) $(APP_ABS)/

$(CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR)/%.o: $(SRCROOT)/%.m
	mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

clean:
	echo rm -f $(OBJECTS_ABS)
	echo rm -rf $(APP_ABS)

[NetMage]

Gosh - a little complicated, no?

In any case, if you have Info.plist in your /iphone-apps/Test directory, this works for me:

INFOPLIST_FILE=Info.plist
SOURCES= \
	main.m \ 
	TestApp.m

CC=arm-apple-darwin-gcc
CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall
LD=$(CC)
#LDFLAGS=-Wl,-syslibroot,/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly -I/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/include -lobjc -ObjC -framework CoreFoundation -framework Foundation -framework CoreGraphics -framework GraphicsServices -framework UIKit -framework LayerKit
LDFLAGS=-lobjc -framework CoreFoundation -framework Foundation -framework UIKit -framework LayerKit

# DEFINE THESE
PRODUCT_NAME=TestApp
SRCROOT=/iphone-apps/Test
BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR=$(SRCROOT)
CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR=$(SRCROOT)/Temp

WRAPPER_NAME=$(PRODUCT_NAME).app
EXECUTABLE_NAME=$(PRODUCT_NAME)
SOURCES_ABS=$(addprefix $(SRCROOT)/,$(SOURCES))
INFOPLIST_ABS=$(addprefix $(SRCROOT)/,$(INFOPLIST_FILE))
OBJECTS=$(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(filter %.c,$(SOURCES))) \
	$(patsubst %.cc,%.o,$(filter %.cc,$(SOURCES))) \
	$(patsubst %.cpp,%.o,$(filter %.cpp,$(SOURCES))) \
	$(patsubst %.m,%.o,$(filter %.m,$(SOURCES))) 
	$(patsubst %.mm,%.o,$(filter %.mm,$(SOURCES)))
OBJECTS_ABS=$(addprefix $(CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR)/,$(OBJECTS))
APP_ABS=$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/$(WRAPPER_NAME)
PRODUCT_ABS=$(APP_ABS)/$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)

all: $(PRODUCT_ABS)

$(PRODUCT_ABS): $(APP_ABS) $(OBJECTS_ABS)
	$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(PRODUCT_ABS) $(OBJECTS_ABS)

$(APP_ABS): $(INFOPLIST_ABS)
	mkdir -p $(APP_ABS)
	cp $(INFOPLIST_ABS) $(APP_ABS)/

$(CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR)/%.o: $(SRCROOT)/%.m
	mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

clean:
	echo rm -f $(OBJECTS_ABS)
	echo rm -rf $(APP_ABS)

[quocanh001]

You are the God, Drakenza. This is exactly what I have been looking for. THANKSSSSSS

[flopethedope]

Yeah I've just gotta say thanks! I've been waiting for this so I don't have to emulate osx.

[ybahman]

is anyone else getting

"makefile:3: *** commands commence before first target. Stop."

[NetMage]

is anyone else getting

"makefile:3: *** commands commence before first target. Stop."

You get that because line 2 does not end with a backslash. A few lines in the file should have a backslash on the end to indicate they continue to the next line.

See my post above - I added in the backslashes.

[wePhone]

I'm definitely interested. If you can't find a site, I can upload it.

[Drakenza]

Yes, NetMage is right, you need the backslashes (these are generated with the project generator properly, so I assume they just disappeared when I pasted the stuff onto the site.)

Anyway, glad you all like it.

[ybahman]

I see, that was probably part of the problem. I managed to fix it this morning.

Here's what happens so i can hopefully save others some time.
It's was a pretty simple and stupid problem, apparently when i unrared the prebuilttoolchain.rar to my desktop some of the files were not extracted because the filename would end up being greater than 260 characters. so i just reextracted it to my C drive

[budm]

This is Great i wish the Rar was smaller cause i have 28:53:05( Elapsed: 16:57:32 and counting) hours left
well i will be enjoying snow during this time But over all this is going to be awesome

[Drakenza]

@budm: Can't do much about the RAR size, other than shaving off some files in there that are precautionary but probably unnecessary. All that would do would reduce it by maybe 30-40 MB but may cause instability... Are you using the torrent, btw, or the Megaupload link?

[lazrhog]

Well I managed to get the toolchain started (kind of), and I get this error

The procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

any ideas on that one ?


In the end, I had to make a few changes to the makefile so I hope it isn't that that is the problem. It couldn't find the compiler, so I had to change it to

CC=../../usr/local/bin/arm-apple-darwin-gcc

as the path was up from my build directory. I also had to change the source directory to current, and add the lines shown by NetMage

SRCROOT=.
BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR=$(SRCROOT)
CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR=$(SRCROOT)/Temp


So is it because I am trying to compile the template App, or should the template app compile just fine and I have a problem somewhere ? I suspect it is a path issue, as it couldn't find the compiler.

The absolute path should be /cygwin/usr/local/bin/arm-apple-darwin-gcc but using that doesn't work either..... :-(

anyone got any ideas ?

[lazrhog]

Hmmm, in response to my post above, I have to say that I don't think Cygwin is installed properly. I also had a previous version of Msys installed, and I think one was upsetting the other. I removed Msys, and used the Winchain installer to re-install cygwin from scratch (from the pre-compiled toolchain)

However, using winchain, it never highlights the install cygwin dialog button, which I was hoping would set up my environment variables properly. What is wrong with the application ? I don't know. Still can't get it to work, and now can't even get it as far in building as it used to get (which was a bad fatal error as far as I can tell)

My makefile is now this, and it still doesn't work

INFOPLIST_FILE=Info.plist
SOURCES=\
main.m \
TestApp.m

CC=/cygwin/usr/local/bin/arm-apple-darwin-gcc
CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall
LD=$(CC)
LDFLAGS=-lobjc -framework CoreFoundation -framework Foundation -framework UIKit -framework LayerKit
PRODUCT_NAME=TestApp
SRCROOT=/cygwin/iphone-apps/TestApp
BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR=$(SRCROOT)
CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR=$(SRCROOT)/Temp

WRAPPER_NAME=$(PRODUCT_NAME).app
EXECUTABLE_NAME=$(PRODUCT_NAME)
SOURCES_ABS=$(addprefix $(SRCROOT)/,$(SOURCES))
INFOPLIST_ABS=$(addprefix $(SRCROOT)/,$(INFOPLIST_FILE))
OBJECTS=\
$(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(filter %.c,$(SOURCES))) \
$(patsubst %.cc,%.o,$(filter %.cc,$(SOURCES))) \
$(patsubst %.cpp,%.o,$(filter %.cpp,$(SOURCES))) \
$(patsubst %.m,%.o,$(filter %.m,$(SOURCES))) \
$(patsubst %.mm,%.o,$(filter %.mm,$(SOURCES)))
OBJECTS_ABS=$(addprefix $(CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR)/,$(OBJECTS))
APP_ABS=$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/$(WRAPPER_NAME)
PRODUCT_ABS=$(APP_ABS)/$(EXECUTABLE_NAME)

all: $(PRODUCT_ABS)

$(PRODUCT_ABS): $(APP_ABS) $(OBJECTS_ABS)
$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(PRODUCT_ABS) $(OBJECTS_ABS)

$(APP_ABS): $(INFOPLIST_ABS)
mkdir -p $(APP_ABS)
cp $(INFOPLIST_ABS) $(APP_ABS)/

$(CONFIGURATION_TEMP_DIR)/%.o: $(SRCROOT)/%.m
mkdir -p $(dir $@)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

clean:
echo rm -f $(OBJECTS_ABS)
echo rm -rf $(APP_ABS)


I now get as a result of my clean re-installation

mkdir -p /cygwin/iphone-apps/TestApp/Temp/
/cygwin/usr/local/bin/arm-apple-darwin-gcc -g -O2 -Wall -c /cygwin/iphone-apps/TestApp/main.m -o /cygwin/iphone-apps/TestApp/Temp/main.o
make: *** [/cygwin/iphone-apps/TestApp/Temp/main.o] Error 57


I can see me giving up on this precompiled toolchain malarky and doing it myself from scratch. I am fairly certain it doesn't work ....

[Kronus980]

Has anyone compiled anything on this yet? Or a link to another toolchain would be nice.

[Dhavalmca87]

Hi,
This is Very Nice, First Tell Me Is this Possible In Window 7 ?.
If Yes the How Please Give me Step of the How I can use this Winchain Because of I familiar with Mac Os now I want to try on window ? IF Possible then How?
Different coding style is there ?. If yes Then How i can use Mac OS Code in WinChain ?

Give me Reply Please Hurry........?


Thanks,
Dhaval Patel