Re: command-line pandoc on iOS

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

This would be cool, so let us know if you have any success with asterius. I haven't tried it myself.  If you run into Haskell-specific problems, let us know and perhaps we can help.

Note: for your iPad purposes, another alternative would be to run pandoc as a server somewhere. This is now very easy with `pandoc-server`.  It is fairly full-featured, with the caveat that it runs in "safe mode," so you have to explicitly send all resources needed for compilation to the server (it won't be able to look for them on your local file system).

> On Oct 16, 2022, at 8:20 AM, jcr <ffi.appdev-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I would like to be able to run pandoc-based document builds on an iPad. This seems to be possible with the [a-Shell app](https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/). It provides a Unix-like shell with LaTeX (additional 1.3GB download), Python, Lua, and many command line utilities. C and C++ programs can be compiled to WebAssembly on the device and run there. It is also possible to cross-compile for a-Shell, using a [customized WASI-SDK](https://github.com/holzschu/wasi-sdk).
> 
> [Asterius](https://github.com/tweag/asterius) compiles Haskell to WebAssembly, and there are a couple of demos that use it to run pandoc in a webpage, but the WebAssembly files they use offer a simple JavaScript interface to the Haskell pandoc function: (input, from format, to format) -> output. I need the full command line interface to run document builds. It looks possible, but since I've never used Haskell, its build tools, or WASI-SDK, I'm not sure how to go about this. There's a pre-built Docker container for Asterius with about 2000 packages from Stockage (I think I can guess what that is), but I don't know if I can use that, or if I have to rebuild everything from scratch using the customized WASI-SDK. After that, I guess I would download the pandoc source and follow the instructions for building it with cabal, using `ahc-cabal` in place of `cabal`. But if anything goes wrong with the cabal build, I'll be lost.
> 
> Has anyone already done this?
> 
> 
> -- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/bfa54f4a-eedc-4e8e-8671-1aa9f6c63e1dn%40googlegroups.com.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/5346511C-4B5D-42E9-B287-DB005CB4D005%40gmail.com.