[physfs] Compiling for iOS (iPhone/iPad/etc)

[Josh de Lioncourt]

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> Actually, for future reference to anyone trying to build for iPhone…
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> You need only link against the Foundation framework. (I don't think iOS even has IOKit).
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> Also, depending on your iPhone application, it may not be convenient, possible, or advantageous to pass argv[0] as it is provided to main(). (This may be especially problematic if your app moves to the background, for example, and you need or want to re-initialize PhysFS when it becomes active once again.)
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> Using the following ObjC code…
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> [[NSBundle mainBundle] executablePath]
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> …returns an NSString which provides the same information that is passed by argv[0]. Converting the NSString to char* and passing that instead to initialize PhysFS works quite well. In fact, I will likely adopt this strategy for OS X projects as well.
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> I hope this info is helpful to someone else out there.
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> On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
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>>> I've been trying to find an example Xcode project that builds PhysFS
>>> for iOS, but haven't found one. Has anyone here done this successfully?
>>> Do you need to link against any iOS frameworks? (i.e., how the OS X
>>> compilation requires IOKit, Carbon, etc). Is there anything special
>>> that needs to be done to get a working build?
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>> I think it shouldn't be different than the Mac OS X builds...link against the IOKit framework.
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>> --ryan.
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