Toolchain & UIKit ready

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This post is dedicated to João Pavão and João Pedro. These two (img1, img2) images are self-explanatory. :p

Two nights struggling with pre-alpha software, sparse docs and a couple of problems due to my "non 10.4/10.3 environment", and I finally managed to get the iPhone toolchain, cross-compiler and frameworks working, after which compiling "my" first native application for the iPhone was easy.

For those interested (again note that I'm not using 10.4 or 10.3), I used the MacPorts version of the toolchain. You'll need XCode installed, of course. Then just follow these two simple steps:

1. cd /opt/local/arm-apple-darwin/include/;rm -fr CoreGraphics;ln -s /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers CoreGraphics
2. Place this specs file in /opt/local/arm-apple-darwin/etc

That's it. Enjoy.

mbpcelsini:helloworld celso$ make
arm-apple-darwin-cc -c hello.m -o hello.o
arm-apple-darwin-cc -c HelloApplication.m -o HelloApplication.o
arm-apple-darwin-ld -lobjc -framework CoreFoundation -framework Foundation -framework UIKit -framework LayerKit -syslibroot /opt/local/arm-apple-darwin/heavenly /opt/local/arm-apple-darwin/csu/crt1.o -lSystem -lgcc_s_v6.1 -lm -L/opt/local/arm-apple-darwin/lib -larmfp -o Hello hello.o HelloApplication.o