go/misc/ios
Elias Naur 7ae8e53de2 misc/ios: don't override GOCACHE on the device
The iOS exec wrapper copies the environment variables to the binary
running on the device. However, some variables such as HOME, TMPDIR and
GOCACHE refer to directories that might not be valid on the device.

The wrapper already ignores HOME and TMPDIR, but after GO111MODULE
was flipped to on for the standard library, cmd/go tests started
failing without a valid and writable GOCACHE.

It took a while to reproduce because go test does not set an explicit
GOCACHE but cmd/dist test does.

Fixes #30914

Change-Id: If186cddc5cfd7ad39a0b3eb95f9c64a7d53a27e3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/168557
Run-TryBot: Elias Naur <mail@eliasnaur.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
2019-03-21 16:24:05 +00:00
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clangwrap.sh build: fix darwin/arm broken on macOS 10.12 with Xcode 8.0 2016-12-21 12:27:41 +00:00
detect.go misc/ios: remove note from output of detect.go 2018-10-24 15:33:31 +00:00
go_darwin_arm_exec.go misc/ios: don't override GOCACHE on the device 2019-03-21 16:24:05 +00:00
README misc/ios: update documentation for running iOS programs and tests 2018-05-10 18:01:20 +00:00

Go on iOS
=========

For details on developing Go for iOS on macOS, see the documentation in the mobile
subrepository:

    https://github.com/golang/mobile

It is necessary to set up the environment before running tests or programs directly on a
device.

First make sure you have a valid developer certificate and have setup your device properly
to run apps signed by your developer certificate. Then install the libimobiledevice and
ideviceinstaller tools from https://www.libimobiledevice.org/. Use the HEAD versions from
source; the stable versions have bugs that prevents the Go exec wrapper to install and run
apps.

Second, the Go exec wrapper must be told the developer account signing identity, the team
id and a provisioned bundle id to use. They're specified with the environment variables
GOIOS_DEV_ID, GOIOS_TEAM_ID and GOIOS_APP_ID. The detect.go program in this directory will
attempt to auto-detect suitable values. Run it as

	go run detect.go

which will output something similar to

	export GOIOS_DEV_ID="iPhone Developer: xxx@yyy.zzz (XXXXXXXX)"
	export GOIOS_APP_ID=YYYYYYYY.some.bundle.id
	export GOIOS_TEAM_ID=ZZZZZZZZ

If you have multiple devices connected, specify the device UDID with the GOIOS_DEVICE_ID
variable. Use `idevice_id -l` to list all available UDIDs.

Finally, to run the standard library tests, run iostest.bash with GOARCH set. For example,

	GOARCH=arm64 ./iostest.bash

To use the go tool directly to run programs and tests, put $GOROOT/bin into PATH to ensure
the go_darwin_$GOARCH_exec wrapper is found. For example, to run the archive/tar tests

	export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
	GOARCH=arm64 go test archive/tar

Note that the go_darwin_$GOARCH_exec wrapper uninstalls any existing app identified by
the bundle id before installing a new app. If the uninstalled app is the last app by
the developer identity, the device might also remove the permission to run apps from
that developer, and the exec wrapper will fail to install the new app. To avoid that,
install another app with the same developer identity but with a different bundle id.
That way, the permission to install apps is held on to while the primary app is
uninstalled.