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

On 11/24/2016 06:10 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear Dario,
> 
> 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?)

Maybe this one:
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/182

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

-- 
Regards,
Francois.
"When in doubt, use more types"