Possible strategy for Windows development ?

[harsh-vardhhan]

Is there is any roadmap for Windows desktop development? Since there is no content for WPF development in C, not possible to reuse the cocoa binding concept.

the one possibility I see is ReasonML <==> C <==> C#. Since majority of WPF development community is on c#.

[rauanmayemir]

Tbh, I have no idea about the current state of Windows environment. I thought there was win32 api?

[harsh-vardhhan]

Yeah my approach seems to be overcomplicated. Win32 using C seems approachable. I'll give it a try and see.

[wokalski]

I suggest we bind to the “most modern“ API so that we have full api surface in our hands in the future. I just noticed https://github.com/LexiFi/csml/blob/master/README.md. Maybe it’s also possible to bind directly to C sharp? I’d do some research. There are quite a few OCaml on windows users. You might want to ping people from opam-cross-windows repo.

[harsh-vardhhan]

Looks like a good possible solution. They have a really neat mapping between OCaml <==> C#.

[harsh-vardhhan]

@wokalski can you try running the getting_started example. I tried but facing this issue when running the make file

$ make
\../../src/csml.exe getting_started.csml
make: ../../src/csml.exe: Command not found
make: *** [../../Makefile.examples:50: build_addin_byt] Error 127

The project doesn't seem to have any active contributor to help.

[wokalski]

It seems like you need to run make in src first. Sorry for the delayed responses but I’m on a vacay. I’d also ask on discuss OCaml. A lot of folks are hanging out there.