Packaging for iOS

Packaging a Qt application for iOS relies on XCode. When you build and run gallery-mobile from Qt Creator, XCode will be called under the hood. In the end, an .xcodeproj file is generated and passed to XCode.

Knowing this, the packaging part will be fairly limited: the only thing than can be automated is the generation of the .xcodeproj.

First, check that your environment variables are correctly set:

Create scripts/package-ios.sh and add this snippet to it:

#!/bin/bash 
 
DIST_DIR=dist/mobile-ios 
BUILD_DIR=build 
 
mkdir -p $DIST_DIR && cd $DIST_DIR 
mkdir -p $BIN_DIR $LIB_DIR $BUILD_DIR 
 
pushd $BUILD_DIR 
$QTDIR_IOS/bin/qmake \ 
  -spec macx-ios-clang \ 
  "CONFIG += release iphoneos device" \ 
  ../../../ch13-gallery-packaging.pro 
make qmake_all 
pushd gallery-core && make ; popd 
pushd gallery-mobile && make ; popd 
 
popd 

The script performs the following steps:

1. Set the main path variables. The output directory is DIST_DIR. All...