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
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