Compiling Open Babel on iOS

Due to the fact that my summer vacations started today, I had the brilliant idea of trying to run open babel on my iPad. @@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ To give a little background, I had tried to compile AutoDock Vina using a cross-

I am running the Checkr1n jailbreak on my iPad and the Unc0ver jailbreak on my phone.

But Why?

Well, just because I can. This is literally the only reason I tried compiling it and also partially because in the long run I want to compile AutoDock Vina so I can do Molecular Docking on the go.

Let's Go!

How hard can it be to compile open babel right? It is just a simple software with clear and concise build instructions. I just need to use cmake to build and the make to install.

It is 11 AM in the morning. I install clang, cmake and make from the Sam Bingner's repository, fired up ssh, downloaded the source code and ran the build command.`clang

Fail No. 1

I couldn't even get cmake to run, I did a little digging around StackOverflow and founf that I needed the iOS SDK, sure no problem. I waited for Xcode to update and transferred the SDKs to my iPad

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ To give a little background, I had tried to compile AutoDock Vina using a cross-

Them I told cmake that this is the location for my SDK 😠. Successful! Now I just needed to use make.

Fail No. 2

It was giving the error that thread-local-storage was not supported on this device.

@@ -125,11 +125,11 @@ make: *** [Makefile:129: all] Error 2

"Open-Babel running on my iPad"

Packaging as a deb

This was pretty straight forward, I tried installing it on my iPad and it was working pretty smoothly.

Moment of Truth

So I airdropped the .deb to my phone and tried installing it, the installation was successful but when I tried obabel it just aborted.

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ make: *** [Makefile:129: all] Error 2

I spent 2 hours around this problem, only to see the documentation and realise I hadn't setup the environment variable 🤦‍♂️

The Final Fix ( For Now )

export BABEL_DATADIR="/usr/share/openbabel/3.1.0"
 export BABEL_LIBDIR="/usr/lib/openbabel/3.1.0"
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From: Navan Chauhan 
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:35:09 -0600
Subject: quick fix

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From: Navan Chauhan 
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:49:40 -0600
Subject: generate new theme

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From: Navan Chauhan 
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:45:59 -0600
Subject: css

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