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How do you bootstrap an SDL app on iOS? I've been considering taking this route myself because I really hate multi-language development and all my DSP code is in C++.

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Your objective C code in iOS can directly call your C++ code. Your C++ code just need to be renamed with extension .mm.

Yeah this is how I use my C++ code on iOS now. I'm more interested in exactly what you do to bootstrap a C++/SDL app from nothing.

I guess Armin Ronacher's blog post here makes a pretty good introduction:

http://immersedcode.org/2011/4/25/sdl-on-ios/

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