From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA26974; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:14:52 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA27390 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:14:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.23]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA8IEoD03713 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:14:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.61) by mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24D3201346CC2; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:14:43 +0100 Received: from iliana (81.49.169.241) by mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DC7A38100262C88; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:14:43 +0100 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18ADeT-00017p-00; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 19:14:41 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:14:41 +0100 To: Nicolas Cannasse Cc: achrist@easystreet.com, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Windows please advise Message-ID: <20021108181441.GA4322@iliana> References: <20021104212354.44502.qmail@web20504.mail.yahoo.com> <005901c284ef$c7cebc60$6e00a8c0@warp> <3DC80A15.84B8C129@easystreet.com> <005c01c285c5$ff0ae1f0$6e00a8c0@warp> <3DC97461.7D694203@easystreet.com> <20021107093019.A8856@pauillac.inria.fr> <3DCB0335.CE7D7B82@easystreet.com> <007f01c2874e$1fe64a20$6e00a8c0@warp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007f01c2874e$1fe64a20$6e00a8c0@warp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Sven Luther Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:41:52PM -0000, Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > > Can't wait to get time to give this a try. While I'm waiting, back > > to the original theme of this thread. Can anyone offer tales of > > (impressive) success or gotchas doing such things under Windows > > with OCaml? > > I wrote the Osiris library, a native Win32 GUI 100% OCaml which is built on > top of the OCaml Win32 API . This enable you to easily create and manipulate > GUI components ( as easy as Borland VCL but still incomplete ). Then I wrote > and XML toplevel so that you can write your interface in xml ( this took me > only two days, and the result is far more readable that any C equivalent > would have been ). This done, I created a tool called "Dragoon3" which was > designed to be a multi user resources sharing platform for the 3D game my > company was planning : Virtual file system, duplicate data stored in DB, > check in & out, and plugins enable.... all in Ocaml. Then I finally wrote > the 3D Engine for the game ( DirectX based ) and interfaced it with OCaml so > I could instanciate and manipulate 3D objects with it. > > The results have been very good : 2x speedup in development process, > shorter code : easier to maintain, and great perfs. But windows only :((( Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners