git clone --recursive [email protected]:NativeScript/ios-runtime.git

• OS X 10.11+
• Xcode 8+
• CMake 3.1.3 - Make sure to install the command line tools from the menu.
• llvm 3.9 - used to build the metadata generator submodule. Be sure to have the folder containing llvm-config in PATH or make a symlink to in /usr/local/bin/.
• Automake - available in Homebrew as automake.
• GNU Libtool - available in Homebrew as libtool.
• Checkout all git submodules using git submodule update --init.

Execute the following commands:

mkdir "cmake-build" && cd "cmake-build"
cmake .. -G "Xcode"
open "NativeScript.xcodeproj"

After you open the newly generated project in Xcode you can run the TestRunner target or the Gameraww example app.

To build the tns-ios npm package run ./build/scripts/package-tns-ios.sh in the root of the repository. The package contains the NativeScript Cocoa Framework, the NativeScript CLI template project and the API metadata generator.

To build the tns-ios-inspector npm package run ./build/scripts/package-tns-ios-inspector.sh in the root of the repository. The package contains the Web Inspector frontend.