iPodIcons

iPodIcons 0.3.6 - A visual resource manager for iPod
Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Lincoln Ramsay.

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iPodIcons lets you view and update icons and text strings from your iPod. In the future more resource types will be supported. You can read and write the iPod's firmware directly, edit a firmware file or even an updater. Thanks to Qt, iPodIcons is able to run on X11 (Unix/Linux/BSD) and Mac OS X.

iPodIcons makes use of ipodedit. See http://austinche.name/ipod/ for more information about ipodedit.

Building iPodIcons

iPodIcons is written with Qt 3.3.6 in mind. I have used Qt/Mac 3.3.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.6 (x86). Other Qt 3.x releases should also work but are not tested.

Notes

Universal Binary

Qt 3.3.6 does not support the creation of Universal Binaries. However, it can be done. The steps are long and complex so I'm not going to list them here. You need to build both a PPC and x86 Qt then use lipo to create a universal libqt.dylib. You then need to build two copies of iPodIcons and use lipo on it's binaries.

Windows

It is theoretically possible to build iPodIcons on Windows but I have not tested this. Certainly some features will not be available unless they are "ported". eg. There's no /dev so you can't just read/write the iPod HD like a file.

iPodIcons is built from the command line (Terminal.app in Mac OS X).

• Setup Environment

  export QTDIR=/path/to/qt
  export QMAKESPEC=macx-g++
  export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

• Check util/config.pri (if you want to enable debugging, etc.)
• Build iPodIcons

  cd /path/to/ipodicons
  qmake
  make

• Setup iPodIcons.app (Mac OS X only)

  make install

The iPodIcons homepage is at http://ipodicons.sourceforge.net/.