Re: [Caml-list] whither portability?

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Freitag, den 25.09.2015, 14:13 -0700 schrieb Raoul Duke:
> I would dearly love to be able to use OCaml everywhere. But the last I
> knew, it was not easy to use it on Android & iOS. Is that a solved
> problem now? And I do not mean somebody did it once and checked it in,
> I mean that it is in constant use, to avoid bit rot and "it worked on
> my machine" standard problems when people say something works. ;-)

I was working the past months on iOS support (see
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6986), for both 32 bit and 64
bit. This is very close to being solved. The goal is to include it into
the main distribution, and there were very positive signals from the
OCaml team. There are already users of this patch. I am still working on
getting the test suite running which is not easy in a cross-compile
environment.

You are very welcome to testing the patch out and provide feedback. This
is fairly important for this platform as it is quite special and usual
testing strategies do not work well (because of cross-compilation, e.g.
you cannot do a bootstrap cycle).

Gerd
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