.NET Maui support for Android and Ios

[fredprodibi]

Hello,

does net-vips works with .NET Maui on Android and Ios?

Thank you

[kleisauke]

Supporting .NET Maui (or Android/iOS devices in general) would require libvips to be cross-compiled for these mobile OSes. See also: #118 (comment).

For Android, I know that Termux provides a way to install libvips, see PR termux/termux-packages#6325 (I haven't tested this).

Let's tag this as an enhancement.

[kleisauke]

For reference, the maccatalyst-arm64 RID should be supported (see #240 (comment)). The iossimulator-arm64 RID fails with the following error:

/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net9.0_18.2/18.2.9180/targets/Xamarin.Shared.Sdk.targets(1665,3): error : 
  clang++ exited with code 1:
  ld: building for 'iOS-simulator', but linking in dylib (/Users/m1/Documents/NetVipsMaui/obj/Debug/net9.0-ios/iossimulator-arm64/nativelibraries/Contents/MonoBundle/libvips.42.dylib) built for 'macOS'
  clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

This is expected since we don't provide prebuilt binaries for iOS.