LibTerm

Once iOS has the ability to sign its own apps, the sky is the limit. In fact, we're getting pretty close to this even without Apple's help. UTM can boot Windows 10 using a whacky JIT hack to get QEMU's TCG working for (slow) x86 emulation. It won't be long until someone boots Xcode and compiles a simple app (though it would probably take hours!). https://github.com/utmapp/UTM. On the other hand, many smart people have started to port other languages, such as porting the Python interpreter (https://github.com/holzschu/python3_ios) and C compilers (https://github.com/ColdGrub1384/SeeLess). See the LibTerm project (https://github.com/ColdGrub1384/LibTerm). I can already see someone creating a sandboxed mini-OS with the ability to spawn and manage processes just like a Linux terminal by cheating iOS's Thread API. However, your forum post says

While troubleshooting I came across the GitHub source code here: https://github.com/ColdGrub1384/LibTerm Attempting to compile a small program, the first barrier I came across started from running cat > hello.c, but after typing the program I found there was no way to enter ^D. There are mentions of Ctrl characters on GitHub but nothing clear in the Help options. So then I tried a herestring with cat > hello.c <<EOF, but herestrings do not seem to work in this shell (no > prompt and does not exit after typing EOF). At this point I tried multiple echo lines: While I could put one starting line, appending to an existing file with >> seems to have no effect. As my intent is only to test clang, I settled for a one-line C program like int main() {}. clang hello.c then gave an error: Executable "ld" didn't exist! Well, I'm here to test the comp

I never understood why there isn’t something like this for iOS. A package of the top 100 or so most popular precompiled tools wouldn’t be against the App Store rules AFAIK. Going the emulation root like iSH seems nuts to me. Running Vim, mutt, ffmpeg, imagemagic, httpd, etc, at full speed would be sweet. Things like [1] [2] seem either dead or not getting much traction. [1] https://github.com/louisdh/openterm [2] https://github.com/ColdGrub1384/LibTerm/blob/master/README.m...