Java on iOS 4 (iPhone)
Recently I had done some research about Java VM running on iPhone devises. At the moment Apple does not support java application and from what Steve Jobs said, there is not plan in the future to do so. Lucky we can have Java VM on our iPhones.
In order to do this you will need of course to jailbreak you iPhone and install OpenSSH and APT-Strict application from Cydia, then SSH to your iPhone IP with username: root and password: alpine and trype to install java this commands:
1. apt-get update
2. apt-get upgrade
3. apt-get install jamvm jikes classpath iphone-java
Here is an example of HelloJava application:
Create a new file with command nano HelloJava.java and write the code from bellow.
public class HelloJava {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println(“Hello, Java”);
}
}
Now ctrl+x to save and exit then compile the source file:
jikes –cp /usr/lib/rt.jar HelloJava.java
Now you can run the application using:
java HelloJava
Compile C applications with gcc on iOS 4 (iPhone)
I search a lot on internet how to do this, and I found some info from Anastas Stoyanovsky. Most people posted that if you install libgcc on iOS 4 it will crash at boot but this is not true.
Here is what you need to do in order to be able to compile and run a C application on iphone:
1. You will need to Jailbreak the iPhone first, search on google for more info.
2. Install OpenSSH from Cydia.
3. Connect iPhone to your wireless network and SSH to it.
4. Download this application using: wget http://www.syshalt.net/pub/iphone/gcc-iphone/fake-libgcc_1.0_iphoneos-arm.deb
5. Install libcc using: dpkg –i fake-libgcc_1.0_iphoneos-arm.deb
6. Install iphone-gcc using this command: apt-get install iphone-gcc
(you can download this version from my website: iphone-gcc if does not work on your device the one that is installed by default)
7. Download using: wget http://www.syshalt.net/iphone/gcc-iphone/sdk-2.0-headers.tar.gz
8. Untar with command: tar -xvzf sdk-2.0-headers.tar.gz
9. Enter in the new created folder with: cd include-2.0-sdk-ready-for-iphone
10. Copy all files to include folder with command: cp –r * /usr/include
11. Now type: cd .. in order to return to the previous folder
12. Download using: wget http://www.syshalt.net/iphone/gcc-iphone/gcc_files.tar.gz
13. Untar with command: tar -xvzf gcc_files.tar.gz
14. Enter in the new created folder with command: cd gcc_files
15. Copy all files to /usr/lib using command: cp –r * /usr/lib
16. Install ldid to sign the application (this will prevent iOS to kill the application at startup) using: apt-get install ldid
17. Sign your compilet aplication using: ldid –S <application>
18. Run the application using: ./<application>Suggestion: Install using: apt-get install nano
This will help you code easy directly from terminal.
Here is an example of hello world using C and gcc to compile on iPhone iOS 4:
I used nano hello.c in terminal to open a new files and writed this simple application:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
return 0;
}
and then CTRL+X to save it, then I typed: gcc –o hello hello.c and after that ldid –S hello
Now you can run your application using ./hello
