Thread: [hoc-devel] iPhone/Cocoa Touch support?

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Will there be support for the iPhone/Cocoa Touch in the future?
There are cross-compilers for the ARM-architecture.

Regards,
Nikolas M.

There are 2 aspects of this that need consideration, not just the ARM aspect. 

(1) Currently the tool 'ifgen' that converts Objective-C frameworks into Haskell modules, is only designed to convert Foundation.framework and AppKit.framework. I have done some initial work to abstract this tool to allow it to work on other frameworks, and I will submit my patch soon. What would be nice is if we could use CoreSurface.framework (which is the API to the multi-touch-screen).

(2) The ARM compilation is more of an issue, but is not something the HOC project really has control over. Also, I'm using macosx-10.4 which doesn't have an ARM cross compiler (I believe this is only available for macosx-10.5) so I can't help much on that front.

Andrew

--- On Wed, 7/16/08, ne...@n-... <ne...@n-...> wrote:

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> Subject: [hoc-devel] iPhone/Cocoa Touch support?
> To: hoc...@li...
> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 3:18 AM
> Will there be support for the iPhone/Cocoa Touch in the
> future?
> There are cross-compilers for the ARM-architecture.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikolas M.
> 
> 
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Andrew Robbins <and...@ya...> wrote:

> (2) The ARM compilation is more of an issue, but is not something the HOC project really has control over. Also, I'm using macosx-10.4 which doesn't have an ARM cross compiler (I believe this is only available for macosx-10.5) so I can't help much on that front.

Yeah, GHC isn't really prepared to cross-compile anything, never mind
cross-compiling code that uses TH (which would basically require the
very same GHC executable to support cross-compilation, native
compilation, and GHCi in order to be able to run the TH code).

You would basically have to run an ARM version of GHC (is there one
yet?) under something like qemu.