Hello All,
I'm currently in the process of porting an iOS application to Xamarin. Unfortunately, I'm fairly new to Objective C and XCode...although, I do think I've made good progress. The iOS app links to a static library (a FAT lib, i.e all architectures) which seems to be written in C++. So the external library has a libSomething.a and a libSomething.h file. The source code of the original iOS app has a *.mm file which references the "libSomething.h" and calls the various methods and functions within the static library. So, this makes sense since .mm files correspond to the C++ equivalent.
I've tried using the Binding Library and followed the Xamarin walkthrough documentation but from what I can tell, this only applies to static libraries which were originally compiled using the Cocoa Touch Library through XCode and which were using Objective C. I figured it out the hard way when running objective sharpie and it threw all kinds of errors from the header file I mentioned. However, when I passed the -c -x c++ to sharpie bind in order to instruct the compiler to use c++, I noticed that all the errors were gone. Only this time, I just have a StuctsAndEnums.cs file but no ApiDefinition.cs file. I'm not sure if this generated code is usable. It created a bunch of enums and structs along with a static CFunctions class and a bunch of methods with** [DllImport("__Internal")]**. Do I take this and modify it or should I be going down a different path altogether (such as using PInvoke to manually call methods)?
To summarize, the orignal iOS app is using a .mm file and makes calls to the static library.
I'm clearly missing something here. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
