[m-users.] Simple cross-platform GUI

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2022, Dirk Ziegemeyer wrote:

> My plan is to add a very simple GUI to a Mercury command line application.
>
> The Mercury app shall start an html server that serves a static HTML
> form where the user can enter all the arguments and options that would
> normally be processed by the getopt module from the standard library.
> When submitting this form, the Mercury application shall be called
> with the appropriate options. No further interaction is required.
>
> The app shall be compiled with the C backend and be portable between Mac/Linux/Windows.
>
> The code in extras/net/sockets.m and extras/posix/posix.socket.m is probably not working on Windows.

The former should work on Windows, although I'm not sure about the other
modules in the extras/net directory. extras/posix is not intended to
work on Windows.

Julien.