> > Thank you very much for the answer. Adrian Marius Popa wrote in 
> > October a blog post regarding Firebird 3 (and 2.5) on iOS: 
> > https://mapopa.blogspot.com/2017/10/firebird-3-on-apple-ios.html?m=1
> >
> > The blog post contains little information other than that it is 
> > possible. For technical details it refers the reader to this mailing 
> > list. It does though say that the Mac OS X release of Firebird 3.0.3 
> > contains a Mach-O dynamically linked shared library for arm_v7 that 
> > can be used on iOS.
> >
> > I would like to work on getting Firebird 3 running on iOS. Can anyone 
> > give some clues to get me started?
> >
> 
> First of all you need a tool to perform cross build of firebird (suppose 
> ideal host platform is Mac). There is a sample of cross building FB on 
> linux for android. It has 2 key files - builds/posix/make.android.arme 
> (mentioned in ./configure command line as 
> --with-cross-build=android.arme) which defines in 
> CROSS_CONFIG=android.arme seconf key file 
> src/include/cross/android.arme. You should create replacement of this 
> files for iOS on arm_v7 and after is start cross-build. Pay attention 
> that first of all almost full build for host is done in order to be able 
> to run FB tools needed for the build. After it set of target binaries is 
> built.

The specific command line I used when I was looking at this last was 
/Users/pbeach/icu54/icu/source/configure --host=arm-apple-darwin 
--enable-static --disable-shared 
-with-cross-build=/Users/pbeach/icu54/icu/armBuild

If you want my autconfig file for arm_v7 ask.

Paul


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