Re: [Caml-list] Porting windowing portions of llpp to OSX

Re: [Caml-list] Porting windowing portions of llpp to OSX

[moosotc]

moosotc@gmail.com writes:

[This is second attempt to get this e-mail to the caml mailing list]

> Hello,
>
> It would have been nice to have a native port of llpp[1] to
> OSX. Yesterday I've tried it with XQuartz and with a one line header
> location change it does compile[2] and then even runs, the experience is
> less than stellar though[3], so if someone wants to help with bringing
> it to the Cocoa world please contact me, I have a pretty good idea how
> to make it work (having done an experiment with SDL based translation
> layer last year), but alas my Objective C/OSX GUI skills are non
> existant hence this pledge for help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://repo.or.cz/llpp.git or
>     https://github.com/moosotc/llpp/
>
> [2] somehow OSXs package management gets one to install clang and git
>     automagically and ocaml was installed via brew, those two (apart
>     from the XQuartz) were the only prerequisites
>
> [3] according to performance/watt metters built into OSX it's faster
>     than preview (even in this rather non-native/frail state)

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