Re: [Pyobjc-dev] PyObjC on the iPhone

[Ian B. <ib...@gm...>]

Any thoughts of putting this on github? Might be an appropriate place  
for your branch. I gave bbum an invite a couple of weeks ago and I'm  
pretty sure I could scrounge one up for Ronald and you.

- Ian

On Mar 8, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:

> So, a few weeks ago I ported PyObjC to the iPhone, and I'm realizing  
> that I should be doing a better job of telling people how to get  
> it ;P. I don't know if anyone is even interested in this, but I have  
> written a little article about it on my website (http://www.saurik.com/id/5 
> ). Most of it is for iPhone developers who want to get started with  
> PyObjC, but it also explains how to get it and provides a link to  
> some example iPhone application code.
>
> (The short version of getting it is to add http:// 
> apptapp.saurik.com/ as an Installer source, install Cydia Packger,  
> and then install iPhone/Python from the Python category.)
>
> I had to bypass the build environment (as I didn't see how to make  
> it do cross compilation in any easy way) and I made a bunch of  
> modifications to the iPhone assembler to support libffi almost  
> entirely out of the box (I also ported Java a few months ago, which  
> needed this for a setup I built that's similar to PyObjC called  
> JocStrap), but otherwise PyObjC pretty much worked. The changes and  
> build scripts can be found at the Telesphoreo project:
>
> http://svn.telesphoreo.org/trunk/data/pyobjc/port.diff
> http://svn.telesphoreo.org/trunk/data/pyobjc/make.sh
>
> (Sorry about the massive single-file .diff, when I was working on  
> that I was sufficiently in a rush as to not spend the time to break  
> it into a couple patches for the couple things I changed.)
>
> Sincerely,
> Jay Freeman (saurik)
> sa...@sa...
> http://www.saurik.com/
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