Up to now I have been looking at F# for modular solutions, but have never considered writing an end to end application. Today I was wondering how one would even start to write an end to end application and realized that I didn’t even know where the entry point is for an F# application.
After browsing MSDN a bit I got a basic example of a F# application with an entry point
[<EntryPoint>]
let main args =
printfn "Arguments passed to function : %A" args
// Return 0. This indicates success.
0
Pretty simple stuff… but what happens when you have a few modules in a program – so I created a F# project with two modules and a main module as illustrated in the image below…
2010-05-15 05-04-48 PM
When I try to compile my program I get a build error…
A function labeled with the ‘EntryPointAttribute’ attribute must be the last declaration in the last file in the compilation sequence, and can only be used when compiling to a .exe…
What does this mean? After some more reading I discovered that the Program.fs needs to be the last file in the F# application – the order of the files in a F# solution are important. How do I move a source file up or down? I tried dragging the Program.fs file below ModuleB.fs but it wouldn’t allow me to. Then I thought to right click on a source file and got the following menu.
2010-05-15 05-08-20 PM
Wala… to move the source file to the bottom of the solution you can select the “Move Up” or “Move Down” option.
2010-05-15 05-12-18 PM
Now that I got this right I decided to put some code in ModuleA & ModuleB and I have the start of a basic application structure.
ModuleA Code
namespace MyApp
module ModuleA =
let PrintModuleA =
printf “hello a \n”
()
ModuleB Code
namespace MyApp
module ModuleB =
let PrintModuleB =
printf “hello b \n”
()
Program Code
// Learn more about F# at http://fsharp.net
#light
namespace MyApp
module Main =
open System
[
