wince question

wince question

[micha]

my interest in ocaml on WinCE comes from the fun I would had to
demonstrate the power of ocaml to my collegues. We are developing
navigation software components  in c++ and one primary platform for
this are PDAs with WinCE. The chance of switching away from c++ is
lesser than zero without being able to run on that platform. Even JAVA
runs on those devices allthough a smaller one than normal and a little
slow. Ignoring the fact that maybe only few people would like to do a
port, what would be the primary tasks to do it? WinCE is quite
different from Win32, I don't know how open the ocaml-source is with
respect to porting it to another platform (specially ARM CPU).

comments and hints are greatly welcome :-)

 Michael

Re: [Caml-list] wince question

[Jonathan Roewen]

The O'Caml VM is fairly easy to port.

A minimal libc should be enough (excluding Unix module & Threading).
The rest will require a bit of work, but likely not too much. I have
the VM running in a freestanding environment (with vmthreads, without
Unix module), so definitely portable ;-)

As for ocamlopt, I wouldn't know.

Jonathan

On 9/28/06, micha <micha-1@fantasymail.de> wrote:
>
> my interest in ocaml on WinCE comes from the fun I would had to
> demonstrate the power of ocaml to my collegues. We are developing
> navigation software components  in c++ and one primary platform for
> this are PDAs with WinCE. The chance of switching away from c++ is
> lesser than zero without being able to run on that platform. Even JAVA
> runs on those devices allthough a smaller one than normal and a little
> slow. Ignoring the fact that maybe only few people would like to do a
> port, what would be the primary tasks to do it? WinCE is quite
> different from Win32, I don't know how open the ocaml-source is with
> respect to porting it to another platform (specially ARM CPU).
>
> comments and hints are greatly welcome :-)
>
>  Michael
>
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Re: [Caml-list] wince question

[Neil Bartlett]

No problems at all with OCaml (including native code compilation) on
the ARM. I am already running OCaml on a Sharp Zaurus, which is a
Linux-based PDA device with an Intel Xscale processor.

Everything compiled and built straight out of the box - it works like
a dream. Of course WinCE is a whole different kettle of fish.

Regards
Neil



On 9/27/06, Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com> wrote:
> The O'Caml VM is fairly easy to port.
>
> A minimal libc should be enough (excluding Unix module & Threading).
> The rest will require a bit of work, but likely not too much. I have
> the VM running in a freestanding environment (with vmthreads, without
> Unix module), so definitely portable ;-)
>
> As for ocamlopt, I wouldn't know.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 9/28/06, micha <micha-1@fantasymail.de> wrote:
> >
> > my interest in ocaml on WinCE comes from the fun I would had to
> > demonstrate the power of ocaml to my collegues. We are developing
> > navigation software components  in c++ and one primary platform for
> > this are PDAs with WinCE. The chance of switching away from c++ is
> > lesser than zero without being able to run on that platform. Even JAVA
> > runs on those devices allthough a smaller one than normal and a little
> > slow. Ignoring the fact that maybe only few people would like to do a
> > port, what would be the primary tasks to do it? WinCE is quite
> > different from Win32, I don't know how open the ocaml-source is with
> > respect to porting it to another platform (specially ARM CPU).
> >
> > comments and hints are greatly welcome :-)
> >
> >  Michael
> >
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