Theos/Setup/iOS
This page is for setting up Theos on an iOS Device. For other platforms see Theos/Setup.
This is the official tutorial, but I simplified to only iOS. Simply run the following command:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/theos/theos.git /var/theos
Now you have Theos on your device, but there are some minor complications that need to be resolved. First, you need to install the 9.3 SDK (I know we are on ios 10 but just use 9.3). Visit [here](http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/fxs/sdks.aspx) for the SDK, once downloaded and **unzipped**, move it using filza to
/var/theos/sdks
And it should look like
/var/theos/sdks/iPhoneOS9.3.sdk
The next step is to create a profile so that theos recognizes where $THEOS is located. Many people have questioned if this is the best solution but it's the only thing that worked for me. If you think I did it wrong I will update if you comment your idea. Anyways, I had no luck using the ~/.bash_profile like you would do on a Mac. I fixed this by instead creating a ~/.profile and putting the export command in there. You can try with bashprofile but it didn't seem to work when I tried :/ Create a new file (edit, more, New file) called .profile in ~ (/var/mobile). Click info on .profile file, scroll down to the spot labeled “sticky” and put the number 0777 so they you can actually run this. Then go into this profile using the text editor built into filza, and write
export THEOS=/var/theos alias theos=’/var/theos/bin/nic.pl’
Reset terminal now using the switcher so the profile can load up. Now you can create a Development folder, I put mine in /User/Documents/Development so that you can work on your tweaks. cd into your new folder using MTerminal, this should **not** be done in root.
cd /User/Documents/Development
Once there run your newly created alias called
theos
You should hopefully get a popup of the templates. Type the number that correlates to the tweak template, enter “blank” for name of tweak, and then click enter a bunch of times as this is just a test tweak and doesn't require the rest of the information. Now, still in terminal cd into the new project using
cd blank/
You should be able to run
make package install
This is going to compile nothing really, but if it works and you successfully install a blank tweak then congratulations, theos works! Otherwise go to [here](http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Theos/Troubleshooting) and match the error with the examples and I'll try to help in the comments. You may need to update Theos every once in awhile (like every few months),
make update-theos
Contents
Requirements
- A jailbroken iOS device with Cydia (or another package manager) installed.
- Knowledge on how to use a command line terminal.
- Objective C knowledge.
Optional Requirements
- OpenSSH installed on your device and a computer that you can SSH into your device with (using MobileTerminal gets tedious pretty quickly).
Installing Theos and it's dependencies
- Add the following repositories to your Cydia sources.
- Install the following packages in Cydia:
PerlTheosiOS Toolchain
- Check that Theos is installed on your device by running:
echo $THEOS
The output should be:/var/theos
Setting up the iOS SDK
Navigate to https://sdks.website and check which iOS SDK you wish to download.
- Create a directory for the SDK to be placed in:
mkdir -p $THEOS/sdks
- Download the SDK temporarily and extract to the SDK directory:
curl -ksL "https://sdks.website/dl/iPhoneOSX.Y.sdk.tbz2" | tar -xj -C $THEOS/sdks
X.Y being the version numbers of the SDK, as seen in https://sdks.website/.
Additional Step for 64 bit (ARM64) Devices
With the current version of Theos (0.9.639-1), building on ARM64 will throw an error. The following will solve this issue.
- Create symlinks to support ARM64:
ln -s $THEOS/makefiles/platform/Darwin-arm.mk $THEOS/makefiles/platform/Darwin-arm64.mk ln -s $THEOS/makefiles/targets/Darwin-arm $THEOS/makefiles/targets/Darwin-arm64
Complete Text Tutorial by iOSChris
If you are having any issues following the tutorial above and need more clarification on the setup process, visit my tutorial located at the following address:
