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openfl / lime

A foundational Haxe framework for cross-platform development
https://lime.openfl.org/
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Add support for a HashLink target #979

Closed Gama11 closed 7 years ago

Gama11 commented 7 years ago

It would be great to have support for HashLink (for a number of reasons). Has anybody started looking into this yet?

jgranick commented 7 years ago

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The first step is to learn more about the way that HashLink handles native C bindings.

https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hashlink/blob/master/libs/sqlite/sqlite.c#L85

We use "CFFI Prime", which is compatible with Neko CFFI, older HXCPP CFFI and newer HXCPP high-performance bindings. Ideally, we will want to find a way to either create separate bindings for HL and for other runtimes, or create a macro that is compatible with all three binding styles.

If we can determine this for HL, then we should be able to then approach HL as we do Neko, where we use a precompiled Lime binary, but compile the Haxe code to HL and run in a VM at runtime. I'm very open to this, if we can sort out the more technical bit (above) first :smile:

jgranick commented 7 years ago

Split into additional smaller issues: #1058 #1059 #1057 #1060