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+					            LINPHONE ON IPHONE
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+
+Linphone for iPhone depends on liblinphone sdk. To build this sdk, you must install both xcode and MacPorts (www.macports.org) with the following ports:
+-automake 
+-autoconf
+-libtool
+-wget
+
+Link macport libtoolize to glibtoolize (sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/glibtoolize /opt/local/bin/libtoolize)
+ 
+To generate the liblinphone dual arch sdk, once the above commands have been executed:
+	 make -f  builder-iphone-simulator.mk  all &&  make -f  builder-iphone-os.mk  all &&make -f builder-iphone-os.mk delivery-sdk
+
+Libraries are available in liblinphone-sdk/
+