TensorflowPod1.5

Build Tensorflow for iOS 11.2 on macOS

Only ARM64 libraries provided into the tar. The all libs are on all iOS variations, including x86 simulator for your MAC are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9upcgpwzquber4p/tensorflow.tar.gz?dl=0 (github does not allow such large libraries)

• [Prerequsite] Install xcode cli tools

  $ xcode-select --install
  

• [Prerequsite] Install automake and libtool

  $ brew install automake libtool
  

• Clone TensorFlow repository

  $ cd ~/Code
  $ git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/
  

• Clone TensorflowPod repository

  $ cd ~/Code
  $ git clone https://github.com/evangel76/TensorFlow15CocoPod
  

  Remove limitations for TensorFlow for iOS:

  open build_all_ios.sh into tensorflow/tensorflow/contrib/makefile
  remove all  instances of "ANDROID_TYPE" into the iOS section of the makefile, 
  this will remove the limitation tensorflow has on operations in iOS. 
  Notice that it will increase dramatically the size of the library. 
  I recommand to only do this if you need advanced features like back propagation,
  or CNN/RNN, and you are targetting mostly ARM64 only.
  
  

• Compile TensorFlow

  $ cd ~/Code/tensorflow
  $ tensorflow/contrib/makefile/build_all_ios.sh
  

• Pack necessary header and static library

  $ cd ~/Code/tensorflow
  $ ~/Code/TensorflowPod/pack.sh
  $ ls tensorflow.tar.gz
  

Integrate TensorFlow as Pod

• [Prerequsite] Install Cocoapods

  sudo gem install cocoapods
  

• Create or add pod into your project Podfile, which should look like Don't forget to edit "DemoApp" as your own project name, otherwise, cocopod will fail to add it to your project.

  target 'DemoApp' do
      # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
      use_frameworks!
  
      # Pods for DemoApp
      pod 'TensorflowPod', :podspec => 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evangel76/TensorFlow15CocoPod/blob/master/TensorflowPod.podspec'
  
  end
  

• Install Pod

  pod install
  

• Follow official demo app to develop, link

  #include "google/protobuf/message_lite.h"
  #include "tensorflow/core/framework/tensor.h"
  #include "tensorflow/core/public/session.h"
  
  tensorflow::GraphDef graph;
  ...
  

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