Compiling for iPhone?

[David Shaw]

On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Jeff Thorpe wrote:

> Having trouble with servers, so if this is duplicated, I apologize  
> on this account too...
>
> Apologies if I’m on the wrong list...
> I am trying to get gnupg-1.4.9 compiled with IDEA for the iPhone.   
> This was possible on the iPhone itself under the 1.1.4 firmware, but  
> since the upgrade to 2.2, gcc on it isn’t so swell.  So, I have  
> tried to compile it on my MacBook with the iPhone SDK, but don’t  
> really know anything.  (I am not a developer).  The only generic  
> instructions for cross-compiling to the iPhone included a generic  
> Makefile that would install the developers app (over WiFi to the  
> jailbroken iPhone), but this doesn’t fit with gnupg, which  
> apparently generates its own Makefile, and so when I fumble about, I  
> just end up compiling for my MacBook.

Point me towards these generic instructions and I'll take a look.

If you have the iPhone SDK, you have the right compiler and toolchain  
for building (it's an ARM device), but there may be some special magic  
involved at some step.

David