Build facil.io into an DLL? about facil.io HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @altPOCA ,

Thank you for your interest in facil.io and in the idea of exposing its API to FreeBASIC.

Although @janbiedermann is doing amazing work porting a working version of facil.io to Windows (see PR #106 ), compiling a DLL is not enough. Much work is required in order to expose the API in a way that is FreeBASIC compatible and friendly (and preferably in a way that allows user to use the API in an idiomatic way to the language.

This might be less or more than the work required to write iodine (the gem that publishes the facil.io API to Ruby), since iodine also includes a default facil.io implementation (HTTP / WebSocket server with pub/sub and support for Redis)... but it will be a lot of work regardless and it requires someone experienced with FreeBASIC (which, I'm not).

I'd be happy to see such a project thrive, but I do warn you that I hope to release version 0.8.x in the not too far future and that I expect major API breaking changes (there are some core design changes in the latest draft).

If you plan to start a project that will compile facil.io as a DLL (this might require a few minor changes to the makefile and could be implemented on windows using an MSVC project file) and publish the API to FreeBASIC, I will try to throw support your way... but... this being a negatively paying job where time and money are concerned (it's all take and no give), I don't make any promises regarding how fast or often I can work.

Anyway, Good Luck!!!

Thanks again for your interest,
B.

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FreeBASIC is available on Linux, too. I should rephrase my issue from building into DLL to building into shared library to be more clear. The only thing you should do is make it able to build facil.io into a shared library, the FreeBASIC binding or any language's binding is up to their respective community.

from facil.io.

Do you mean something like make lib (should work...) or make install (currently make will not automatically install the compiled library files)...?

from facil.io.

Do you mean something like make lib (should work...) or make install (currently make will not automatically install the compiled library files)...?

Yes. I don't know it's already possible.

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