Re: [Caml-list] Android/iOS apps with OCaml

[Dario Teixeira <dario.teixeira@nleyten.com>]

Hi,

On 2016-11-24 17:10, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Making it possible (easier) to cross-compile OCaml programs is one of
> the outcomes the work I am doing with Gallium (the team developping
> OCaml at Inria) is supposed to have. I am not sure yet how this can
> impact the production of Android apps, but as far as iOS apps are
> concerned, one thing I am supposed to work on is the integration of
> Gerd's pull request (can someone find the number?) which has been 
> stored
> in the ios-support branch of the OCaml repository on GitHub.
> 
> This should make it possible to cross-compile OCaml programs which can
> then be executed on iOS devices.
> 
> One other question will then be whether such programs can somehow use
> all the application frameworks provided by Apple.

Thanks for the reply.  That last point is crucial: without convenient
access to all the APIs, being able to cross-compile to iOS is not very
useful, at least to me.  Moreover, there's still the problem of cross
platform access to those fancy APIs.


> Regarding Android I don't know how helpful OCamljava could be but it
> might be worth investigating.

Were Android the sole target, OCaml-java would be a contender.  However,
I would like for the same program to be used both in Android and iOS,
with minimal (or zero) need to write platform-specific stubs to access
the various APIs.

Kind regards,
Dario Teixeira