[Haskell-iPhone] Objective C bindings?

Maxwell Swadling maxwellswadling at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 04:27:19 UTC 2014


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. 

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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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