homeOcaml bindings for OpenGL and SDL
UPDATE: This project has moved to glcaml.sourceforge.net.
In the interests of reinventing the wheel where possible, I wrote OCaml bindings for the SDL libraries and OpenGL libraries over a couple of weekends.
The (automatically generated) OpenGL bindings cover OpenGL 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.0 and most current non-platform-specific extensions. There are no dependencies whatsoever: the system opengl shared library is loaded dynamically, and the functions are called dynamically, so there is no need to link against import libraries.
The SDL bindings are fairly but not wholly complete; they are hand-written and functions are bound on an as-needed-by me basis. They are only dependent on the SDL main library and not on the mixer, ttf or image libraries. Because I wanted to have basic sound capabilities, the SDL_Audio modules are implemented, along with extra functions for panning and pitch shifting audio buffers.
- The source code, in a tar gzipped file, along with around 20 examples
- The documentation, fairly complete for SDL
This has been tested and works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux running on AMD64.
On Windows I use the mingw Ocaml compiler suite along with the msys shell; the source tarball contains makefiles that work as-is on the Windows mingw/msys port and under Linux. It will probably work as-is for the cygwin port of Ocaml, and will definitely need some tweaking to work under the Visual-C port.