I believe your understanding of cross-compiling is flawed. What it actually means is that you compile code for a target that's different than the native architecture. For example, I wrote C on a VAX 11/780 that was cross-compiled to 68000 assembler, and then downloaded to the target system (yeah, OK, it was the early 80's).

If you're compiling on the local system for use on that system .. that's not cross-compiling.

I imagine that there are tools that will cross-compile for iOS on other architectures -- then all you need to do is to load that executable on the target system, possibly by creating an iOS app. I don't actually know about any of this -- I'm just hand-waving at this point.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

In reply to Re: How to do a true cross compilation by talexb
in thread How to do a true cross compilation by Joride

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