Port to Windows / MobileDevice.dll

[nanoscopic]

Theoretically everything/most of what is done using MacOS MobileDevice framework could be done by linking directly against MobileDevice.dll on Windows.

[Dantee296]

@nanoscopic hi can u provide windows port ?
make file for windows ?

[Dantee296]

@nanoscopic managed to compile on windows using GNUStep but now its crashing on NSkeyArchiver in cf2achive method , any help with this ?

[nanoscopic]

It is not actually necessary to use GNUStep or CFLite etc. The needed functions can be loading directly from CoreFoundation.dll using LoadLibrary etc.

I do not know offhand how to, though, link against the Objective C Foundation lib, and am simply not going to try. It is easier, in my mind, to avoid the official implementation entirely.

There are existing examples of using LoadLibrary with the iTunes DLLs on Github, so it shouldn't be too hard to do; I just haven't done it yet.

I think also there may/will be an issue with the tcp relay I wrote; I don't think it will compile directly under MSVC compiler and will need to be ported. It could, though, be compiled under Cygwin / MinGW I believe. I haven't tried yet.

[nanoscopic]

It is likely pretty easy to do this now that I implemented NSKeyed unarchiving.

I am not entirely sure if I will ever do it this way though. Since Linux will require using libimobiledevice, I will likely be using that optionally. Once that is supported, that will work on Windows as well.