Yep. I was very surprised to find no scheme that compiled to native code and had gtk bindings. Work is being done on the chicken-qt bindings, at the least, but for the time being I've fallen back on vala.
martin On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle <stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote: > It worked ok, but I never used it to make apps. > Ive not tried, but I suspect the real work is making a racket > library/interface for the ui stuff. > > S > > On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> How well did it work? I've been playing with Chicken to write Maemo >> code, which seems to work pretty well, but I figured Racket would be >> pretty heavy for a mobile device. >> >> martin >> >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle >> <stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote: >>> FWIW >>> I once used scratchbox to cross compile mzscheme to arm >>> >>> -wikipedia, from Maemo page -> >>> The Maemo SDK is based around the Debian-oriented Scratchbox Cross >>> Compilation Toolkit, which provides a sandbox environment in which >>> development may take place. Scratchbox uses Qemu to emulate an ARM >>> processor or sbrsh to remotely execute instructions. >>> Scratchbox-compatible rootstraps are available for both x86 and ARM, >>> so the majority of development and debugging takes place on x86, with >>> final packaging being for ARM >>> -- >>> >>> On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >>>> On Sep 15, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >>>>> Regarding Racket building for ARM, when you need to build it often >>>>> but ARM is relatively slow... I wonder how much work to get >>>>> cross-compile of the Racket toolset working. >>>> >>>> Even if the C core part is cross compiled (there's more stuff in the >>>> collections), the main point is compiling and running the files on the >>>> machine, so cross compilation (if possible) will certainly speed >>>> things up, but will not make it a less-effective testing tool. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >>>> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >>>> _________________________________________________ >>>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> -- >>> Stephen De Gabrielle >>> stephen.degabrie...@acm.org >>> Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 >>> Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 >>> http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > > -- > > -- > Stephen De Gabrielle > stephen.degabrie...@acm.org > Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 > Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 > http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
