I tried F# on the iPhone (via MonoTouch) tonight. The trivial hello-world code seemed to work just fine. I used standalone to build the (trivial) fsharp code:
type Foo() =
do System.Console.WriteLine("This output brought to you by the note F#");
mono ../FSharp-1.9.6.16/bin/fsc.exe -a Foo.fs
And added a line to instantiate a Foo in FinishedLaunching().
Loaded the resulting dll into MonoDevelop, along with FSharp.Core.dll, and it just worked. Or at least it worked in the simulator, haven't tried the real device yet.
3 comments:
It should be noted that the F# license is restrictive and doesn't permit this kind of usage
directhex - why do you say that? I don't see anything in the license that would cause problems. At least for 1.9.6.16 - there may have been earlier F# versions that used more restrictive licenses.
The F# compiler license isn't one of the MS Research licenses that forbids commercial use, FYI.
I would be shocked if the DLLs generated by any compiler have any license issues whatsover. Even the GPLed GCC doesn't generated GPLed-by-default binaries or shared libraries.
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