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IOS Prerequisites¶
The following guide assumes:
XCode 5.1 or above
OS X 10.9 or above
Your experience may vary with different versions.
Getting started¶
In order to submit any application to the iTunes store, you will need an iOS Developer License. For testing, you can use a physical device or the XCode iOS emulator.
Please note that in order to test on the device, you need to register these devices and install your “provisioning profile” on them. Please refer to the Apple’s Getting started guide for more information.
Homebrew¶
We use the Homebrew package manager for OSX to install some of the dependencies and tools used by Kivy. It’s a really helpful tool and is an Open Source project hosted on Github.
Due to the nature of package management (complications with versions and Operating Systems), this process can be error prone and cause failures in the build process. The Missing requirement: <pkg> is not installed! message is typically such an error.
The first thing is to ensure you have run the following commands:
brew install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config mercurial brew link libtool brew link mercurial sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install Cython==0.29.9
If you still receive build errors, check your Homebrew is in a healthy state:
brew doctor
For further help, please refer to the Homebrew wiki.
The last, final and desperate step to get things working might be to remove Homebrew altogether, get the latest version, install that and then re-install the dependencies.