From: Sebastien Ferre <Sebastien.Ferre@irisa.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml-java + lablgtk2
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:09:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A0F0D.7000201@irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331215956.2826.283.camel@thinkpad>
Hi,
On 03/08/2012 03:12 PM, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.03.2012, 14:58 +0100 schrieb Sebastien Ferre:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am considering developping an OCaml
>> application using Lablgtk2 for the GUI,
>> and using ocaml-java/Nickel for calling
>> a Java library (namely, OWL-API). I am
>> working on Linux.
>>
>> Has anybody tried this ? I am a bit afraid
>> of potential dependency problems...
>
> This cannot work. ocaml-java is running in a JVM, but lablgtk2 is
> written for the standard runtime, and assumes standard conventions for
> the C bindings it needs.
>
> What you could try to do is to use the standard runtime, and load the
> JVM dynamically for running the Java library, and connect both via JNI.
> There is a generator for such cross calls by Xavier:
>
> http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#camljava
>
> I've never used it, though.
This looks promising, and adequate to my needs.
However, the last version dates back to 2004, and
is for java-1.4. Is there any chance it stills
works ? Has anybody used it recently ?
Sébastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-08 13:58 Sebastien Ferre
2012-03-08 14:12 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-03-09 14:09 ` Sebastien Ferre [this message]
2012-03-09 15:53 ` CHAAR Rabih
2012-03-09 16:06 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2012-03-09 22:31 ` Sebastien Ferre
2012-03-09 17:48 ` forum
2012-03-14 17:34 ` Sebastien Ferre
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