# Cross Compiling VTK for Mobile Architectures

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/cross-compiling-vtk-for-mobile-architectures/5193
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 15, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/cross-compiling-vtk-for-mobile-architectures/5193 "2021-02-15T19:41:59Z")
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### Author: ![agirault](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/agirault/32/508_2.png) [@agirault](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/agirault)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/cross-compiling-vtk-for-mobile-architectures/5193/4 "2021-02-15T20:50:19Z")

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FYI, looks like multiple people had issues with building VTK for iOS in that thread:

> [@iOS framework](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/ios-framework/1607):
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> I want to use VTK in ios. According to the instructions, I plan to Build the vtk.framework of ios, but it is prompted in make that VTK not installed. Build the source then Build the ‘install’ target。The vtk.framework generated after I manually created the corresponding directory is 0 bytes. Why is this? Thank you。 Before calling this, ensure that the following variables are set: VTK\_GLOB\_LIBS - a path containing a wildcard suitable for globbing VTK\_INSTALLED\_HEADERS - the path containing all h…

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