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Since some days, you need to run the configure script in a tree where you are going to build the iOS app anyway (to set the app's user-visible name). Use the configure script to set up a couple of symbolic links pointing to the LibreOffice core source and build directories and the Poco installation. Use those symbolic links in the project file. Also, now a vendor-specific app icon set can be given with the --with-iosapp-appicon option. Change-Id: Ib936388a4cc680bd97ca6ef95a91e3296ab04d18 |
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How to build the iOS app: 1) First you need to build the LibreOffice core code for iOS. Put in your autogen.input something like this: --enable-debug --enable-dbgutil --enable-werror --with-distro=LibreOfficeiOS and build "normally". (Naturally, no unit tests will be run when cross-compiling LibreOffice.) Of course there is no requirement to use those --enable options; as a minimum, just --with-distro=LibreOfficeiOS should work. This will produce a large number of static archives (.a) here and there in instdir and workdir, but no app that can be run as such. (You can see a list of them in workdir/CustomTarget/ios/ios-all-static-libs.list) 2) Do a separate clone of the online repo on macOS, but don't run any make or open the Mobile project there yet. 3) Do a separate clone of the online repo on Linux, run autogen.sh, and configure it with the --enable-iosapp option: ./configure --enable-iosapp Then run make. That will produce files in loleaflet/dist, nothing else. Copy those to the corresponding folder in the online clone from step 2. This is what I do: make clean && make && tar cf - loleaflet/dist | ssh misan.local 'cd lo/online-ios-device && tar xvf -' where misan.local is the macOS machine where I build the app, in the ~lo/online-ios-device folder. 4) In the online folder form step 2, edit the Mobile/Mobile.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj file in your favourite text editor. Change all instances of ../../../../ios-device to the path to where you built LibreOffice core for iOS in step 1. Change the value of PNGINSTDIR to where you have installed libpng compiled for iOS. Change POCOINSTDIR to where you have installed Poco compiled for iOS. Then run: ./autogen.sh and ./configure --enable-iosapp --with-iosapp-name="My Own Mobile LibreOffice" The only purpose of running the configure script in this tree is to get the app name as the CFBundleDisplayName property into the Mobile/Mobile/Info.plist file. Sure, as we require editing the project.pbxproj file anyway, we could as well also require editing the Info.plist file and avoid having to run the configure script. Or maybe the other way around, should we also have the configure script expand the project.pbxproj file, passing the configure script pointers to the LibreOffice source and build directories, and POCO and PNG install directories. Those would then expaned in project.pbxproj, and it wouldn't need to be hand-edited. 4) Now you can open the Mobile Xcode project, build it, and run it.