Docs on how to start a new target

[Adrian Veith]

Hi,

I try to find some docs on howto start a new target for Haxe. I looked through the source and found that common.ml and main.ml have to be patched and a gentaget.ml has to be created. So far so easy, but now I am puzzling what the right pf_<options> are:

{

pf_static = true;              -- guess: static typed - bool, int and floats can't be null

pf_sys = true;                 -- guess:  has access to system

pf_locals_scope = false;       ?

pf_captured_scope = true;      ?

pf_unique_locals = false;      -- guess: only one local with the same name can be declared

pf_capture_policy = CPWrapRef; ?

pf_pad_nulls = true;           ? 

pf_add_final_return = false;   ?

pf_overload = true;            ? 

pf_pattern_matching = false;   ?

pf_can_skip_non_nullable_argument = true; ?

}

Any directions are appreciated (I read this link http://old.haxe.org/doc/advanced/code_generators/needed already) - I don't want to spam the list with stupid questions.

Anyway, If someone is interested - I am planning to make a nim (former nimrod) target, which is a very efficient transpiler to C, CPP, OBJC with thread local GC (which might cause problems with existing threaded Haxe code).

cheers, Adrian.

[Simon Krajewski]

Am 23.02.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Adrian Veith:

Hi,

I try to find some docs on howto start a new target for Haxe. I looked through the source and found that common.ml and main.ml have to be patched and a gentaget.ml has to be created. So far so easy, but now I am puzzling what the right pf_<options> are:

{

pf_static = true;              -- guess: static typed - bool, int and floats can't be null

pf_sys = true;                 -- guess:  has access to system

pf_locals_scope = false;       ?

pf_captured_scope = true;      ?

pf_unique_locals = false;      -- guess: only one local with the same name can be declared

pf_capture_policy = CPWrapRef; ?

pf_pad_nulls = true;           ? 

pf_add_final_return = false;   ?

pf_overload = true;            ? 

pf_pattern_matching = false;   ?

pf_can_skip_non_nullable_argument = true; ?

}

Any directions are appreciated (I read this link http://old.haxe.org/doc/advanced/code_generators/needed already) - I don't want to spam the list with stupid questions.

The platform_config type is documented in common.ml. Just check its definition.

Simon