As for your unknown -arch problem – could you provide more on the error, such as the command line that gcc was doing at the time please?

I’m trying to statically compile libical. Your directions work great for the Simulator, but I’m getting an error for Device. Here is my error:
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option “-arch”

Wondering if you had any ideas about this?

Also may want to consider making into Universal Binary:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2137.html

If only I had two binaries that compiled I could test lipo out as well…

The ~ is to put it into your home directory. Sometimes that works, sometimes you need to specify it directly with /Users/ etc.

The -no-cpp-precomp came from somewhere else to be honest. I’m a little vague on what it *actually* does, but it seems that for most libraries it’s required / works.

You don’t want to pass in references to the SDK frameworks usually. That would only be required if the library you are compiling for is specially coded for the iPhone and in which case you probably wouldn’t be reading this anyway because they would have created the Makefile specially for the iPhone.

Do you need any specific help with the package you are trying to compile?

Currently fighting myself with this stuff