Pardon me if this is a “noob” question, I’m overextending myself a bit with this.
I’m trying to compile a library written in C for use in an iPhone app I’m developing. I can’t seem to figure out how to do this, and I’ve been searching and trying things for hours.
I’ve tried using an External Build System project, and selecting the folder where the makefile.in.am.mingw are.
I’ve tried creating a Static Library project and adding the header\source files to the project. Which looked good until I tried to compile and got 260k+ errors.
When I ‘cd’ to the directory with the makefiles and type ‘make’ I get:
No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
I have no idea how makefiles work, I just want to use the library!
Is there a simple way to do this? If someone could at least point me in the right direction, I would be quite appreciative.
The makefiles you have are for GNU automake (under MINGW by the look of it). Even if you get them working (automake can be tricky, but it is included in Mac OS X’s development thankfully), it probably won’t help you much in building an iPhone library.
I did this with an existing C library by creating a new framework target in Xcode with the right include settings, etc gleaned from looking at the makefiles. That created a .framework bundle with headers and an iPhone .a library ready to be used by an iPhone project. You could also just import the C source into the iPhone project, and have it compiled in that way which would probably be quicker.