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Provide support for iOS wheels
Expected behaviour
Would it be possible to add support to target iOS with:
- iphoneos arm64
- iphonesimulator arm64
- iphonesimulator x86_64
OpenCV for iOS is distributed as a framework and it's working well. So it should be possible to modify the Python part to build it.
Actual behaviour
All attempts at building failed.
Issue submission checklist
- [x] This is not a generic OpenCV usage question (looking for help for coding, other usage questions, homework etc.)
- [x] I have read the README of this repository and understand that this repository provides only an automated build toolchain for OpenCV Python packages (there is no actual OpenCV code here)
- [x] The issue is related to the build scripts in this repository, to the pre-built binaries or is a feature request (such as "please enable this additional dependency")
- [x] I'm using the latest version of
opencv-python
Thanks for valuable suggestion, can you provide at least 1 example of such library? What is a use case for Python bindings on iOS?
We are using this to access OpenCV directly in Swift.
https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d5/da3/tutorial_ios_install.html
In our case, we write a lot of Python related code for AI and data sciences for proof of concepts. When this is production ready we embed some of the Python code (not UI) to iOS with Briefcase (https://beeware.org/project/projects/tools/briefcase/) using numpy, sklearn or scipy. To do that, we need pre-built native wheels for iOS. In this specific case, the Python OpenCV wheel would be required to do image processing and curve fitting (not possible with other libraries).
Is it possible to build numpy iOS wheel? Quick search doesn't give any result
Sure, check all the available wheels for iOS on this site.
https://anaconda.org/beeware/repo?sort=_name&sort_order=asc
They are adding more every month.