[xmlvm-dev] Hello World for new iOS API

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

Guys,

as some of you know, we are working on generating the Java iOS API from 
the original Objective-C header files. This would replace the 
time-consuming, error prone process of doing this manually. Another 
benefit is that we would have instant 100% coverage of the complete iOS API.

There is now a very first version of this new API to show where things 
are headed. There are two new directories:

xmlvm/src/ios: contains the generated Java iOS API.
xmlvm/src/xmlvm2c/lib/wrapper: contains the generated C wrappers.

The new API lives in package org.xmlvm.ios.*. When cross-compiling an 
iOS application with --target=iphonec, use the new command line 
parameter --xmlvm-new-ios-api. At this stage, the new API only supports 
structs (such as CGRect, CGPoint, etc). There is a minimalistic test 
case in xmlvm/src/test/ios that can be cross-compiled in the following way:

java -Xmx1G -jar dist/xmlvm.jar --in=bin/org/xmlvm/test/ios/ \
      --out=out --app-name=CGRectTest --target=iphonec \
      --xmlvm-new-ios-api

To generate the new API yourself, you need to checkout trunk/crossmobile 
in the same directory where you checked out trunk/xmlvm, then:

cd crossmobile
ant gen-xmlvm-ios

There is still much work ahead, but we wanted to give you a heads up on 
the progress. Please consider to help if you have spare cycles.

Arno