Interesting, I didn't know about that. Not a lot of information there. I wonder 
how they got around the problem I mentioned.


On Apr 15, 2014, at 09:25, Warren Lindsey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Try searching for "node" on the App Store?
> 
> http://nodeapp.org
> 
> Reviews are mixed, haven't tried it myself. 
> 
> On Apr 15, 2014, at 9:43, Jason Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> @ryandesign "no app that uses v8 or nodejs would ever be approved by Apple 
>> to be offered on the app stores. ".. this is a little bit wrong. Instead 
>> 'ever', 'not yet' would suit better since jxcore team already replacing v8 
>> to llvm backed compiler. So.. an app may use nodejs then compiled by jxcore 
>> and finally can be placed on app store.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sunday, April 13, 2014 9:35:17 PM UTC+2, Carl Danley wrote:
>> Also came across this: https://github.com/felixge/node-cross-compiler which 
>> looks awesome.
>> 
>> On Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:26:44 PM UTC-4, Carl Danley wrote:
>> I think I might have sent a reply to the author (woops). I'll repost it here:
>> 
>> RE: can't distribute/sell the app - I totally understand here; this would be 
>> for personal use only. I would probably write a blog article to explain how 
>> to get this onto your phone (if you're jailbroken).
>> 
>> How can I get started on this? It would rock if someone had a binary 
>> available for dpkg that I could transfer to my phone and install; that's the 
>> goal at least.
>> 
>> On Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:16:39 PM UTC-4, ryandesign wrote:
>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 14:09, Carl Danley wrote: 
>> 
>> > First post in nodejs (woot!). I was wondering if there was any modern way 
>> > to compile the latest node on an iPhone 5 ios7 setup. My phone is 
>> > jailbroken so I have access to terminal, etc, etc. Is there any place to 
>> > get started with this? I don't know much about cross compiling but am 
>> > willing to contribute however possible. 
>> 
>> It might be possible to compile nodejs for iOS for use on a jailbroken 
>> device, but before you spend a lot of time on that, understand that because 
>> nodejs uses v8, and because of certain memory management techniques that v8 
>> uses which Apple prohibits because it considers it insecure, no app that 
>> uses v8 or nodejs would ever be approved by Apple to be offered on the app 
>> stores. (That's why Chrome for iOS uses Apple's JavaScript implementation, 
>> not v8.) So you could use this for your own fun or for in-house apps, but 
>> not for apps you want to distribute to the general public. This goes for the 
>> Mac app store as well. I brought up a previous discussion about this a year 
>> or two ago. 

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