Re: [Development] Qt5 iOS

2012-12-17 Thread Ian Dean
Just an FYI, as of today, V8 has been ported to and is running successfully on iOS. It currently requires a jail break, but it is (theoretically) possible to get it running on a stock device without breaking any Apple App Store rules... The problem is that iOS does not allow RWX protections on

Re: [Development] Qt5 iOS

2012-12-17 Thread Ian Dean
It's completely possible (in theory) to get V8 working on stock iOS. Just non-trivial. The problem is that V8 tries to allocate memory with RWX permissions (which stock iOS doesn't support). V8 needs to allocate with RW, and then change to RX when it wants to execute that code. This works (the

Re: [Development] Qt5 iOS

2012-12-17 Thread Ian Dean
The reason why Google doesn't use V8 on iOS is that the Apple restriction is that their JS engine must be used to run any JS that is downloaded from the net. That is an issue for a web browser, but not a sand-boxed application. In any case, you'd use Qt's embedded resources for your JS, so

Re: [Development] Qt5 iOS

2012-12-16 Thread Ian Dean
On quarta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2012 18.31.47, Trismer Technologies wrote: Does anyone has information about roadmap of Qt5 for iOS ? Digia promises this port in next year but I'd like to know how the current blockers will be removed: the most important one - V8 javascript for iOS ?