From c10438d264b37bdda7e8aea4ab392b8e6c7abeca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Khronos31 <39792509+Khronos31@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 05:29:41 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Use .dylib for the iOS dynamic library extension (#26171)

`--app:lib` currently produces an ELF-style name when targeting iOS:

```console
$ nim c --app:lib --os:macosx --cpu:arm64 mylib.nim   # -> libmylib.dylib
$ nim c --app:lib --os:ios    --cpu:arm64 mylib.nim   # -> libmylib.so
```

iOS is Darwin: its shared libraries are Mach-O `.dylib`, loaded by the
same dyld as on macOS. `compiler/platform.nim` already encodes this for
the `MacOSX` entry (`lib$1.dylib`); the `iOS` entry is the only Darwin
row still carrying the ELF name, so the same source yields a differently
named artifact depending on which Apple platform it is built for.
---
 changelog.md          | 3 +++
 compiler/platform.nim | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index dc1cf67111..942441d06f 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ parameter and result types, not just their source-level shape. Use
   arrays slice via a `{base, off, len}` view. This also covers seq/non-numeric-array
   write-through, pass-through, re-slicing and `@` (openArray-to-seq) of such views.
 
+- On `--os:ios`, the default file name for `--app:lib` is now `libfoo.dylib`
+  instead of `libfoo.so`, matching `--os:macosx` and the Darwin convention.
+
 ## Tool changes
 
 - Added `--raw` flag when generating JSON docs to not render markup.
diff --git a/compiler/platform.nim b/compiler/platform.nim
index 62c8e3e90f..5d467b96c8 100644
--- a/compiler/platform.nim
+++ b/compiler/platform.nim
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ const
       objExt: ".o", newLine: "\x0A", pathSep: ":", dirSep: "/",
       scriptExt: ".sh", curDir: ".", exeExt: "", extSep: ".",
       props: {ospNeedsPIC, ospPosix, ospLacksThreadVars}),
-     (name: "iOS", parDir: "..", dllFrmt: "lib$1.so", altDirSep: "/",
+     (name: "iOS", parDir: "..", dllFrmt: "lib$1.dylib", altDirSep: "/",
       objExt: ".o", newLine: "\x0A", pathSep: ":", dirSep: "/",
       scriptExt: ".sh", curDir: ".", exeExt: "", extSep: ".",
       props: {ospNeedsPIC, ospPosix}),