Recently, a new iOS app called iSH was released. It lets you run Linux (ish?) programs from the command line. And, there is a workaround to install 3rd party utilities including the apk package manager.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get rclone to work on it? And if so, what would be involved?
In this time, apple allow to publish on the app store. The store version iSH shell doesn't have /sbin/apk, which can install any Alpine Linux module, so this app itself is a terminal emulator no extensions.
I wouldn't count on Apple to allow anything... However, however rclone already runs on ARM. I tried to get it to compile on libTerm and I could not. Maybe with the confluence of MacOS and iOS architectures in the coming months/years this will become easier?
Someone has already got it running on iOS though because cryptCloudViewer is using it.
In other words, why not try to get this running an Apple-ARM rather than hope Apple relaxes their stance on emulators which, to be honest, is probably not happening.
You are correct. This emulator approach is not smart and extremely slow...
The iSH shell can run rclone, but just run in technical interest not usually work, I think.