Building small big things

A play through on Easy

Dungeon Logica is now listed in the Itunes App Store!!!

Open Tool Chain and C++ Standard Template Libray

The open Tool Chain headers convientely omit some critical STL headers so only basic C++ code could be used. Various samples provided by Apple that use OpenAL, are in C++ and also use STL. I copied the missing STL headers (map, vector, ...) over to the iPhone and updated my make file with the following settings for c++ compiling.


LDFLAGS += -lstdc++

CXXFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -lz -x c++ -I"/var/include/c++/4.0.0" -I"/var/include/c++/4.0.0/arm-apple-darwin9"

Prefix.pch and how to use it in open toolchain

Most if not all of the sample apps provided with the iphone SDK use a prefix.pch file which, under Xcode would be handled as a precompiled prefix header included with all source files.

I searched all over to see if anyone had already handled it but come up empty.

This is what I came up with to properly include the prefix header and also have it precompiled.

%.o: %.m Prefix.pch.gch $(CC) -include Prefix.pch -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@ %.o: %.cpp Prefix.pch.gch $(CXX) -include Prefix.pch -c $(CXXFLAGS) $< -o $@ Prefix.pch.gch: Prefix.pch $(CC) -x objective-c-header $(CFLAGS) Prefix.pch

It adds the Prefix.pch.gch as a dependence and then includes it when creating an object file.

Ported TouchFighter to open Tool chain

I came across the source for TouchFighter on the Apple developer website and I have ported everything but the audio (openAL) to use the open tool chain.

Still trying to figure out if it is even possible to compile the soundengine.cpp, which requires STL. I had the same problem with the CrashLanding code, which I just skipped, and commented out all sound calls.

Ported some of the Apple IPhone SDK samples to use the open tool chain

For some, I use a Mac to create the Nib file, but others didn't need it.

GLGravity
GLSprite
CrashLanding (No longer available as part of the SDK, but I had an old version)
GLPaint

Found a ported version IPhone Sample UICatalog

It does not use a NIB file, which can only be generated on a Mac using the ibtool.

It can be found here: Apple IPhone SDK Ported UICatalog

Developing iPhone apps requires an Apple computer...

...and if you own an iphone, then you have one!

I came across an Open Tool Chain that allows direct development on the iPhone.

Yet another article stating that there is money to be made with iPhone apps.

There's Gold In Them iPhones

Some kid in his bedroom can make a million bucks just by writing a little application for the Apple phone. Read More

The IPhone App market

Seems the market is flooded with 99 cent apps. So much so, the only way of discovery is off-site or being promoted by Apple. I would really like Apple to come up with some type of single App trial system. I am personally annoyed with all the free 'Lite' apps that are really placeholders for trial versions. Makes the App store twice as difficult to navigate.

(Discovered at Gizmodo)