Original bug ID: 6266
Reporter: strobegen
Assigned to: @damiendoligez
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2015-05-12T14:46:59Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Target version: 4.02.2+dev / +rc1
Fixed in version: 4.02.2+dev / +rc1
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Tags: patch
Related to: #4303 #5887 #6613
Parent of: #6861
Monitored by: @whitequark @gasche @dbuenzli gerd

Bug description

I guess that out of box compiling support for mobile platforms like iOs and Android might be a significant stimulus for popularization of language.
Currently mobile market is huge in stlll growing (for instance http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-personal-computing/).

I think that creating lot of bindings for native platforms APIs (like Xamarian did for mono, for instance) is not so important - that is really necessary that:

• cross compilation
• out of box ways to easily build library binary which can be linked to native application code with original platform tools/IDEs.

File attachments

• camlrun-4.02.patch
• camlrun-fixed-2.diff
• camlrun-fixed-3.diff
• camlrun-fixed-4.diff
• camlrun-fixed-5.diff
• camlrun-fixed-6.diff
• camlrun-trunk.patch
• ocamlrun-fixed.diff