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Provide support for iOS wheels

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Description

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
  • This is not a generic OpenCV usage question (looking for help for coding, other usage questions, homework etc.)
  • 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)
  • 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")
  • I'm using the latest version of opencv-python

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's Python build scripts and automated CI toolchain to determine how platform targets and framework builds are configured. Compare the current build flow with the requested iphoneos arm64, iphonesimulator arm64, and iphonesimulator x86_64 targets; done means successfully producing supported iOS wheels for all three.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ios, python
Domain
build-system, mobile-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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