[Haskell-iPhone] Objective C bindings?

[Jake Brownson]

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 <lukexipd at gmail.com> 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
> <maxwellswadling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> > On 23 Apr 2014, at 11:25 am, Jake Brownson <jbrownson at gmail.com> 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-td4971516.html
>> >
>> > 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.
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