Build on MacOS with XCode for iOS

• Clone the SLProject GIT repository into a directory of your choice

• For the setup with automatic app signing to enable app installation on your device:

  • You need an iPhone or an iPad
  • You need an apple id and a free apple developer account
  • You have to install xcode
  • You have to install cmake (I use dmg from the official website, uninstall all other versions before)

• Add your apple id to xcode (https://learnappmaking.com/how-to-create-a-free-apple-developer-account/)

• Start Xcode on your Mac

• Choose the Xcode → Preferences menu and navigate to the Account pane

• Click the +-button in the bottom-left corner and choose Apple ID

• Log in with your Apple ID email address and password

• Transfer your personal developer team id to cmake

• Open the app "Keychain Access"

  • On the top left of the window, select "login" under "Keychains" and underneath in "Category" select "Certificates"
  • In the main window double click on your apple developer certificate (e.g. Apple Development: youremail@nothing.com (1234556))
  • In the pop up window, copy (only) the id in the line containing "Organisational Unit". This is your personal developer team id.
  • Transfer you developer team id to cmake (e.g. -DXCODE_DEVELOPMENTTEAM="<your_id>")

• Open a terminal, navigate to this directory and run the following commands

  • chmod +x generate_xcode_project_ios_personal.sh
  • ./generate_xcode_project_ios_personal.sh

• Open the xcode project file from directory BUILD_IOS

• Build and install the app. You will get a prompt saying: Could not launch “"

• On your device: go to Settings/General/Device Management and select "Apple Development: ".

  • Select "Trust "Apple Development: ""

• Back in xcode, build and install the app.

• Open a terminal in the SLProject root folder and enter:

mkdir build_ios
cd build_ios
cmake .. -GXcode -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR=arm -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=8.0