Re: [Haskell-iPhone] Objective C bindings?

Thanks for the tips guys, and thanks to Luke for his work in this area! I came across ObjectiveHaskell but got the idea that it was more for calling HS from ObjectiveC, but I think I got the wrong idea looking closer. The samples all still have a bunch of .m files in with them. It'd be awesome to purely have .hs files which I believe HOC would allow. However as I was searching for ObjectiveHaskell on hackage I came across the language-inline-c project which is still in development, but looks really interesting: https://github.com/mchakravarty/language-c-inline/wiki/Motivation It uses quaiquoting to let you write objective-c or c directly inline in a .hs file and it'll compile it and hook up all the values automatically (or that's what I get from reading the website anyway, haven't tried it yet). On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Luke Iannini wrote:

Yo Jake, Yeah, what Max said. Sigh, I've done this (updated OH to use Max's static lib support, fixed a bunch of bugs, and other things) an have been promising to clean it up enough to release for quite some time. The yucky bit is that I manually converted it to strip out the Template Haskell usage which both makes it much uglier and not nearly as nice to use. But it works, and that's something : ), so I'll get going.

I think we could design something even nicer with Type Families sometime that didn't require TH.

Cheers Luke

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Maxwell Swadling wrote:

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Hello!

I think ObjectiveHaskell is a more practical choice today than HOC.

ObjectiveHaskell could be cleaned up to use the new GHC 7.8 features, which will simplify the build process.

https://github.com/jspahrsummers/ObjectiveHaskell/tree/reboot

Try it out.

__END__ Maxwell Swadling

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On 23 Apr 2014, at 11:25 am, Jake Brownson wrote:

https://code.google.com/p/hoc/

Is anybody aware of any efforts to revive the HOC project that provides Objective-C bindings for Haskell? Or any alternatives to it? It seems like it would be a great complement to the iOS cross compiler. I've started reading through the code to see what it might take to get them working w/ recent GHCs. the last commit on the google code project was 2010.

When I do the "runhaskell Setup.hs build" from the installation instructions I get a few things like this:

"Unacceptable argument type in foreign declaration: CInt"

which seems to be explained by this as due to a change in FFI at some point: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/zlib-build-failure-on-recent-GHC-td4971...

I'm just starting to dig into this so maybe there's a good reason nobody else has. I'm pretty new to Haskell, but I love the idea of making native GUIs for OS X and eventually iOS. _______________________________________________ iPhone mailing list iPhone@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/iphone

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