Suggestion: Make F# components work as part of MonoTouch apps

[funnelweb]

Miguel said this means buildiing FSharp.Core against the 2.1 profile of Mono but I can't even find that profile yet.

I installed the emulator-only version of MonoDroid and MonoTouch and looked for the binaries for the 2.1 profile in the MonoDroid installation files but can't find them.

[funnelweb]

OK, I found the platform binaries for these, e.g. they install to

/Developer/MonoAndroid/usr/lib/mono/2.1

I'll now try building FSharp.Core against these

[funnelweb]

I have added an experimental build of FSharp.Core for MonoAndroid, see 259fc20

Just do:

make do-2-1

and you get

lib/debug/2.1/FSharp.Core.dll

[funnelweb]

You can now build and use F# components on MonoAndroid by using the FSharp.Core.dll you get with "make do-2-1" and "make install-2-1".

That's not to say it is easy - you can't do this directly from MonoTouch because you need to have a project file etc. but you can do it if you compile from the command line.

More testing is needed too

[migueldeicaza]

Ben,

Do you have an iPhone or an Android? We can give you the licenses to test on device.

[funnelweb]

Android. Can you send me an iPad too :-)

[mcandre]

Upvote. Please get F# working more fully for iOS.

[7sharp9]

I have a patch for this, eta soon ...

[funnelweb]

eagerly awaited

[fahadsuhaib]

me too! Android stuff works lovely :),

Xamarin have improved their support in this area enough that iOS apps are now viable.