A Makefile for automatically downloading and compiling libspatialite (including its dependencies SQLite, GEOS and PROJ.4) statically for iOS.

The resulting library is a "fat" library suitable for multiple architectures. This includes:

• armv7 (iOS)
• armv7s (iOS)
• arm64 (iOS)
• i386 (iOS Simulator)
• x86_64 (iOS Simulator)

Xcode 12.1 with Command Line Tools installed. The following compiled dependencies can be installed with Homebrew:

brew install automake autoconf libtool libxml2 pkg-config
brew link libxml2

Simply run

make

• Copy the contents of lib and the include directory to your Xcode project directory. You should end up with something like the following:

lib/
└── libspatialite
    ├── include
    │   ├── geodesic.h
    │   ├── geos
    │   │   ├── (many more files in geos)
    │   ├── geos.h
    │   ├── geos_c.h
    │   ├── org_proj4_PJ.h
    │   ├── org_proj4_Projections.h
    │   ├── proj_api.h
    │   ├── projects.h
    │   ├── spatialite
    │   └── spatialite.h
    ├── libgeos.a
    ├── libgeos_c.a
    ├── libproj.a
    ├── libspatialite.a
    └── mod_spatialite.a

• Then, drag the contents from Finder into the project navigator to incldue them in your project. Xcode should automatically add the library files to the "Build Phases" window. If not, add them later when you add the other required libraries.

• Add these to the search paths in your Xcode project's "Build Settings":

  • Library Search Paths: $(PROJECT_DIR)/AppName/lib/libspatialite
  • Header Search Paths: $(PROJECT_DIR)/AppName/lib/libspatialite/include

• And in the "Build Phases" window, add the following to the section "Link Binary With Libraries":

  • libiconv
  • libcharset.1.0.0
  • libc++
  • libxml2.2
  • libz

• Lastly, if your project is written in Swift, include the headers in your bridging header:

//
//  bridging.h
//

#include <sqlite3.h>
#include <spatialite/gaiageo.h>
#include <spatialite.h>

• Now you should be able to use Spatialite:

spatialite_init(0);
print(spatialite_version()!)

Thanks to gstf for providing the original repository this is forked from (https://github.com/gstf/libspatialite-ios), as well as davenquinn and smellman for their forks making it possible to build for newer versions. Thanks to aaronpk for the instructions on how to use this in an iOS project (https://gist.github.com/aaronpk/0252426d5161bc9650d8). This is heavily adapted from all of their work.