Yesterday, stepping into iPhone development got a lot easier. "Kroo", an iPhone developer, put together this Binary Toolchain Installer for Intel Macs. Instead of taking two days to download, debug and compile, installation takes a few minutes. Download a copy and install and you're set to start programming.
You'll need to copy your iPhone files to your Macintosh for the toolchain (and the toolchain installation) to work. You can either use a tool like scp -r and connect to your hacked iPhone or you can copy the file system from one of the iTunes restore software dmgs--google for details. Rename the root of the iPhone file system "heavenly" and place it into /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin. Then run the installer.
One more thing: All the makefiles I have posted here at TUAW use the old toolchain. To use my makefiles with this new toolchain, you'll need to update the Makefile header as such.
Looking for a little hand-holding? Head over to irc.osx86.hu and connect to #iphone-uikit.
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9-11-2007 @ 2:38PM
Robert said...
With the day job taking up way too much time, this is exactly what I need to get going... lookout SplashID! :-)
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9-11-2007 @ 2:46PM
Christ G. said...
Well, at least you posted the toolchain. I was about to delete this site from my RSS reader when I started to read the unintelligible "iPhone Coding" posts. It takes that extra bit of geek arrogance to assume that iPhone owners are all fluent in Objective-C. You guys ride the iPhone way too hard anyway. If you are going to continue posting to the 0.0001% of iPho'wners who code, perhaps you should start another site.
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9-11-2007 @ 2:47PM
spathiwa said...
Thanks for putting this together, Kroo! I've been procrastinating installing the new tool chain and you just made it a whole lot easier. You rock.
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9-11-2007 @ 2:50PM
starlabs said...
Actually I consider these posts very helpful. I'm considering developing for the iPhone myself... so Erica, keep it up! :)
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9-11-2007 @ 2:56PM
Dave said...
Gah! Just when I'd finished rebuilding the toolchain from svn, too. I noticed the new toolchain install docs on google code have a path to the 10.4u SDK in the config--does that mean it'll work under Leopard now? Any way to get this package working on Leopard?
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9-11-2007 @ 3:02PM
Robert said...
Chris G: I think not clicking the link would have taken less time and been a more effective use of your time.
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9-11-2007 @ 3:03PM
Alex Polson said...
Thanks Erica! Now I don't have any more excuses to not buy an iPhone. I can't wait to get developing.
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9-11-2007 @ 3:22PM
james r said...
Can anybody recommend where to post suggestions for iphone/ipod-touch apps. I think somebody is gonna need to put together an offline browsing app as soon as people figure out there's not nearly as many free wifi spots as they thought there was when they bought the touch. Also, what about a security app that phones home if your device gets stolen. Any suggestions, comments?
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9-11-2007 @ 3:29PM
Sahil said...
I've started using this site for my app endeavours... http://www.iphonedevdocs.com/index.php
So far it's really expansive and simply awesome!!!
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9-11-2007 @ 3:58PM
Will said...
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I've been waiting so long to get this thing working.
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9-11-2007 @ 4:40PM
Rich S. said...
Thanks - I was waiting for a post like this.
Now off to play with objC instead of doing actual work.
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9-11-2007 @ 4:43PM
MobileGuy said...
Christ G: "Well, at least you posted the toolchain. I was about to delete this site from my RSS reader"
Why don't you just take your crying somewhere else?
For those that are interested in this, it's postitively great news.
I don't think there is any geek arrogance going on, and if there is, who cares. Don't like it? leave. Geez.
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9-11-2007 @ 5:05PM
Tankko said...
>>You can either use a tool like scp -r and connect to your hacked iPhone...
Can you elaborate on this? Do you copy the *whole* file system, or just a certain part? Would you mind posting the exact scp command?
and when you say:
>>Rename the root of the iPhone file system "heavenly" and place it into /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin.
Does that mean the root of the iphone file system us placed in: /usr/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly
I know this seem obvious to some, but the exact commands will be very helpful.
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9-11-2007 @ 7:50PM
Will said...
Just google "iphone 38 DMG decrypt." I'm not sure how much I say on TUAW. Maybe I'm wrong, but some of the process my be illegal. I just give you a few hints. There's I file in nateture's called decrypt. Use that to decrypt the the restore file iTunes downloads when you need to restore. Rename it heavenly.dmg and put it in that directory.
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9-11-2007 @ 7:52PM
Will said...
Boy, that was horrible. I must have been drunk. Sorry. Hopefully you can gleam its meaning.
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9-11-2007 @ 8:30PM
Dave said...
Nope, neither seems to work under Leopard. Damn!
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9-11-2007 @ 9:03PM
Fritz Laurel said...
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
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9-11-2007 @ 10:09PM
Tom said...
PPC!
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9-12-2007 @ 12:00AM
tankko said...
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.
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9-12-2007 @ 1:41AM
Troykapoika said...
I would really like to have wget on the iPhone. Will this allow me to compile it?
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