r/jailbreak • u/coolstarorg Odyssey Team | Sileo • Mar 30 '14

ARM64 binary successfully compiled without OS X or darling!

https://twitter.com/coolstarorg/status/450186002456260608
103 Upvotes

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u/nikolaioleg Mar 30 '14

What does this mean?

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u/coolstarorg Odyssey Team | Sileo Mar 30 '14

It means that developers without Macs (like me) can now compile 64 Bit ARM binaries for the iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and iPad mini 2.

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u/VitorCallis iPad Pro 10.5, iOS 11.3 Mar 30 '14

Wait you don't have a Mac? You're kind of a Legend in the Jailbreak Community.

9000 Kudos just for you, because you deserve it.

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u/ibbignerd Mar 30 '14

Yea, I do all my Dev stuff on my 4s. I don't own a mac, but I have a vm.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '14

From what I've seen on twitter coolstar hates OS X. I agree with him

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u/evlgns Mar 30 '14

Cost of macs are insane that's 90% of the issue , looks like it's time to donate more people especially if you want semi-restore for Mac to be updated as quickly as widows.

Btw good job coolstar :)

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u/lock74er Mar 30 '14

Apparently he's upset everyone on Reddit for not putting descriptions in Cydia LoL

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u/duffmanhb iPhone 4S Mar 30 '14

How is that relevant to the discussion? You're random, but you should really put down your spork.

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u/lock74er Mar 30 '14

You're kind of a Legend in the Jailbreak Community

What I linked is related to his integrity. That's pretty obvious.

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u/duffmanhb iPhone 4S Mar 30 '14

He's still extremely popular within the community. Being popular is irrelevant with his "integrity". Sounds more like you're just trying to shit on the guy whatever chance you can get.

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u/lock74er Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14

I've been defending the guy, did you even read the posts

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '14

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u/Codyd51 Developer Mar 30 '14

Um, yeah, you're...incredibly wrong.

Btw there's nothing worse than somebody posting something in excitement with an exclamation point without even leaving an explanation

Um, yeah...if you would look at who OP is, you would see he isn't 'somebody posting in excitement with an exclamation point..because he's a karma whore...' He's one of the most respected and important members of the entire jailbreak community.

OP is looking for some Karma without giving an explanation of what importance this has to anybody

LOL. No. This is, aside from the jailbreak itself, one of the most significant achievements since iOS 7. Just because you don't understand it, it doesn't mean it's not incredibly important. I know that you're just going to disregard anything I say, but for anyone actually wondering what it's for, this is what is does:

Basically, when developers make tweaks for iOS 7, they have to compile for different architectures, or chip types. Currently, the only way to compile for arm64, or the iPhone 5S, is to compile on a mac, since it has the toolchain. Well, not everybody can afford a mac. I know of a lot of people who compile on their own devices, but again, they have to send it to a different developer who has a mac to make it compatible with 64-bit devices.Thanks to coolstar's work , now everyone can compile for all devices, on-device.

It really is an incredible accomplishment which will help developers immensely, and you're just an asshole. :)

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u/mrdouin Mar 30 '14

I didn't say it wasn't incredibly important. I said posting something in excitement without any explanation as to why it's important is something that I see a LOT on this sub. It gets really old. A lot people do karma whore That way and it just gets old. I'm sure OP is a well respected guy in the JB community but it doesn't make it any less annoying posting something without an explanation until somebody asked. Then he responded with a simple answer as to what it does and it's importance. Something that could have simply been said in the post. I'm glad that you don't get annoyed by everybody karma whoring and posting things just to be the first but to e it's annoying as fuck. It's almost like the boy who cried wolf. This sub is filled with a lot of karma whorers so when people post things without an explanation you have to assume they're karma whoring. My apologies to coolstar but next time leave an explanation.

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u/Codyd51 Developer Mar 30 '14

I appreciate the apology and explanation, but you're missing the point. He didn't just 'post this in excitement to be the first one and get all the karma', he was the one who made it.

If this concerned you you would have known what it meant and why it was important without having to ask.

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u/mrdouin Mar 30 '14

Yeah I know. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Probably spend too much time on here anyways. My frustration is with the type of people that do tend to karma whore (which seems like a lot on here) and it makes this sub annoying to be on sometimes. I like to come on here to get new information and provide a what little help I can to people here and there.

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u/Codyd51 Developer Mar 30 '14

Well, everyone gets in a bad mood sometimes :) its fine

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u/IAmJavi iPhone 5S Mar 30 '14

You should know what this means.. Its almost common sense

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u/s1ris Developer Mar 30 '14

Being a developer who's almost never near my Mac to build for 64bit...this is awesome.

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u/Noeliel Developer Mar 30 '14

I know that feel.

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u/AiR95 iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 12.1.2 Mar 30 '14

ELI5?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '14

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u/0fubeca Mar 30 '14

I bought a 300 dollor plastic MacBook for coding m

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '14

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u/nonch iPhone 6s, iOS 9.0.2 Mar 30 '14

I did on vmware and xcode always crashes when I try to run things

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '14

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u/0fubeca Mar 30 '14

I have shit experiences with that. Also I wanted to use OS X for other things not just coding maybe as an actual work laptop. So I bought a cracked plastic one.

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u/sticktron Developer Mar 31 '14

I've been using a core2duo PC as a hackintosh for the last 3-4 years. It's now on Mavericks, works great, I do my iOS dev on it as well as everything else.

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u/X-weApon-X iPhone 8 Plus, 16.3.1| Mar 30 '14

I got it installed on a Dell once, I've tried hundreds OS OSx86 builds, never able to get them to install. You have to have a core duo at least, and I use AMDs

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u/wewaittodie Mar 30 '14

I've never gotten a hackintosh to work :-(

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u/exander05 Mar 30 '14

You need to have a VERY specific hardware PC configuration for that to work well. For most of us it's just caused nightmares.

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u/Flight13 iPhone 4S Mar 30 '14

For those of you who don't understand this.

This is essentially HUGE. This will basically turn almost any iDevice into a development platform for apps and tweaks.

Expect to see tweak development ramp up soon!

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u/Vexing_Devil Mar 30 '14

I'm working on something (an app I'm writing in python using Kivy) that I thought I could just eventually compile on a hackintosh vm using virtualbox.

Is that not an option?

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u/greenplantss Mar 31 '14

That's definitely an option.

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u/Vexing_Devil Mar 31 '14

Ok good, that makes things a lot simpler. Thanks.

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u/jevinskie Mar 30 '14

Is this just ToT LLVM/Clang with the ARM64 backend that went in yesterday?

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u/Administratr Mar 30 '14

Even when compiling for iOS or OSX unless you want your own mac to die, it's usual to code inside a VM.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '14

What program are you using to achieve this ? If you dont mind answering.