I was tasked to come up with a way to develop Gateware on iOS. At the moment Gateware is using CMake to create the projects to develop on. This way the Gateware team can make multiple projects for every platform that they develop for. At first I took this task as making another project for iOS specfically, and made a simple CMake script that made an XCode project that would build Gateware for iOS. Making a XCode project purely for building on iOS is pretty simple, but I learned that it is possible for a single XCode project to have multiple build targets, and set out to make the Gateware MacOS project also build for iOS.
It turns out that adding an iOS target to an XCode project through CMake is not very intuitive as making an XCode project only with iOS. At first I tried to change the Project settings when generating the iOS target. The issue with this approach is that the other targets in the project were using the project defaults, and changing the project default to iOS would effect the other targets to also target iOS. I would have to change the targets already setup in the project for this strategy to work, as that would require a large rewrite of the CMakeLists file, I set out to find another way to go about this issue.
After searching the internet for a way to have a Mac and iOS target in a single project for XCode, I ended up going back to the CMake documentation. I found that in CMake you can change specific target settings in XCode using the set_target_properies command and XCODE_ATTRIBUTE property. I ended up creating a dummy target in CMake and overwriting the necessary build settings to essentially convert a Mac executable to an iOS app. The next step would be to get Vulkan installing on an iPhone using CMake.
References:
https://gitlab.com/gateware-development/gateware
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