NSTask or equivalent for iPhone

ios command-line open-source gdal nstask
Craig picture Craig · Oct 8, 2009 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I've an open source project (gdal) that I want to compile and run as part of an iOS app. I had been expecting to use NSTask but I see now that it was removed in iOS 3.0. I've also seen elsewhere that running external applications, though this would be a resource in my app's bundle, is not allowed.

Has anyone else found a way to run commandline tools within their iOS applications?

Answer

Louis Gerbarg picture Louis Gerbarg · Oct 8, 2009

It wasn't removed in 3.0, it was never there. There is no way to run separate processes on the iPhone. GDAL appears to be under an MIT style license and has a library interface, so directly linking it into an iPhone app shouldn't have any legal or technical issues.

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