Installing the iPhone Developer Toolchain: A simple How-To

I'd like to know if I can use the same restore image for the toolchain even if I'm using firmware 1.1.1

I've looked all over and no-one has even asked that question.

um - "run the installer" means that 'ooo shiny!!' app that you are told to run in the "DMG dir". Assuming the DMG dir is the 'heavenly' dir the shiny app launches then quits on my mac intel. :-/

Is a PPC version of this toolchain going to be made available? I'm dying to try my hand at developing some iphone apps!!!

tankko:

You can copy straight off the phone, if you have rcp/ssh installed on it. However, as you pointed out, there is a problem, you need to copy the whole thing. You don't need every file from the user media directory but you need some of them. So there is no one command thats going to do it.

If you're going to do it this way put everything into a new directory called "heavenly" at "/./usr/local/arm-apple-darwin" So the Applications folder from the iPhone would be at "/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly/Applications" And you'll need to use "sudo rcp -r"

I recommend decrypting the DMG. Its easier, quicker and you get a clean/unmodded copy of the file system.

Erica - thanks so much for such excellent iPhone information. I just downloaded the new toolchain and thanks for the info on the updated makefiles.

AS always - you ROCK!
CG

I really think its better to use the unmodded restore file. If you don't, you need to get the entire iPhone file system, save you user data like music, photos, etc. Because you don't want all 8GBs, there is no one easy command to do it. If you want to use rcp, place everything in "/usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly/"
So the Applications directory from the iPhone would be /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly/Applications/

I would really like to have wget on the iPhone. Will this allow me to compile it?

Will:

It seems that I can copy right off the iphone, so I would not need to do anything "fishy" with the .dmg file. Since I have rcp working off my iphone already, I'm just trying to find out the exact thing I need to copy off. Based on the post, I can only assume I am to copy the entire root directory, but that includes 8G of music and movies.

Hey Erica, maybe you could flag these as "iPhone Development" posts with its own category so non-developers can distinguish/sort regular iPhone posts from dev posts.

Personally, I like the dev posts. Keep 'em coming.

Cheers,
FL

Nope, neither seems to work under Leopard. Damn!