Re: iphone, Windows.

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 12/13/11 16:01, Justin Haynes wrote:
> 1. Has anyone compiled tarsnap for iPhone?
> Assuming a jailbroken iPhone with a user accessible shell and full access to the
> filesystem with tarsnap potentially able to run as root, what obstacles does
> anyone forsee in creating this?
> I intend to jailbreak my verizon iPhone 4 soon, and I'd like to have the
> ubiquity of being able to use tarsnap on any platforms.

If anyone has, they haven't told me.  I suspect that it would be relatively
straightforward (to the extent that anything on iGadgets is straightforward)
since we're talking about a more or less POSIX platform.

> 2. Has anyone done a native compile of tarsnap on any of the Microsoft platforms
> like Windows 7?  ( Or SCO?  :-) )

You want to wait until I update tarsnap to use a newer libarchive for that.

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