[erlang-questions] ei for Apple's iOS?

[Aaron Hillegass]

I'm writing a client that talks to an Erlang server.   The client runs on iOS.

I was thinking it would be nice to use the ei_encode* functions to make the data passing back and forth more Erlang-friendly.

My question: Has anyone compiled ei as a static library for iOS applications?

I have tried: downloading the source to a Mac with the iOS SDK, cd to the erl_interface directory, configure, and make.  The output from that is attached.  Any suggestions are appreciated.

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Aaron Hillegass
Big Nerd Ranch, Inc.

$ ./configure CPP="cpp" CXXCPP="cpp" CXX=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-g++-4.2 CC=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2 LD=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ld CFLAGS="-O -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.0.sdk" CXXFLAGS="-O -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.0.sdk" --disable-dependency-tracking --host=arm-apple-darwin10 LDFLAGS="-isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.0.sdk" AR=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ar AS=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/as LIBTOOL=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/libtool STRIP=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/strip RANLIB=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ranlib
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
checking host system type... arm-apple-darwin10
checking for arm-apple-darwin10-gcc... /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
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checking for /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cpp
checking for arm-apple-darwin10-ranlib... /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/ranlib
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/arm-apple-darwin10/Makefile
config.status: creating src/arm-apple-darwin10/eidefs.mk
config.status: creating src/arm-apple-darwin10/config.h
config.status: src/arm-apple-darwin10/config.h is unchanged

$ make
Makefile:19: /make/target.mk: No such file or directory
Makefile:20: /make//otp.mk: No such file or directory
Makefile:32: /make/otp_subdir.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/make/otp_subdir.mk'.  Stop.