[Caml-list] Using OCaml with microsofts free C++ compiler?

[Caml-list] Using OCaml with microsofts free C++ compiler?

[Mark Brady]

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Hello,
Microsoft offer their C++ compiler (non optimised version) for free download (no IDE just the SDK) as part of the Dot Net SDK download.

As this seems to be free for most people and for most uses (even commercial) does anybody know if OCaml will work with it or does it only work with the older VC++ 6.0 compiler (it's the VC++ 7.0 compiler that's available for download)?

Here is the link to the MS SDK:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true

Any replies would be very welcome.
Mark.


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Re: [Caml-list] Using OCaml with microsofts free C++ compiler?

[Max Bowsher]

Mark Brady wrote:
> Hello,
> Microsoft offer their C++ compiler (non optimised version) for free download
(no IDE just the SDK) as part of the Dot Net SDK
> download.
>
> As this seems to be free for most people and for most uses (even commercial)
does anybody know if OCaml will work with it or does
> it only work with the older VC++ 6.0 compiler (it's the VC++ 7.0 compiler
that's available for download)?
>
> Here is the link to the MS SDK:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/m
sdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true
>
> Any replies would be very welcome.

You know that as of 3.06, you can compile ocaml for MinGW using Cygwin, so
getting an optimized, native build of ocaml on Windows? There really is no
reason to use Microsoft's compiler. See OCaml's README.win32

Max.

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Re: [Caml-list] Using OCaml with microsofts free C++ compiler?

[Jacques Garrigue]

From: "Mark Brady" <kalath@lycos.com>

> Microsoft offer their C++ compiler (non optimised version) for free download (no IDE just the SDK) as part of the Dot Net SDK download.
> 
> As this seems to be free for most people and for most uses (even
> commercial) does anybody know if OCaml will work with it or does it
> only work with the older VC++ 6.0 compiler (it's the VC++ 7.0
> compiler that's available for download)?

This works: I could bootstrap ocaml with that.
The only trouble, which was solved by a colleague, is that there is no
lib command included: you must replace it by "link /lib" both in
Makefile.msvc and ocamlopt sources. This means that you cannot use the
ocamlopt from the ocamlwin binary distribution, you would have to
compile it yourself.

Also, the code generated is slower than the professional edition (but
just the same as the student edition).

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Re: [Caml-list] Using OCaml with microsofts free C++ compiler?

[Mark Brady]

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Thanks for all the help. The mingw32 soloution seems perfect for what I want :) 

A link on the download page to the information contained in README.win32 might be a help to other people like myself who are unsure which win32 version is best for them (maybe the link is there and I just didn't find it). The feature matrix of the various compilers in README.win32 is very helpful.

Thanks once again for all your advice,

Mark.




>Mark Brady wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Microsoft offer their C++ compiler (non optimised version) for free download
>(no IDE just the SDK) as part of the Dot Net SDK
>> download.
>>
>> As this seems to be free for most people and for most uses (even commercial)
>does anybody know if OCaml will work with it or does
>> it only work with the older VC++ 6.0 compiler (it's the VC++ 7.0 compiler
>that's available for download)?
>>
>> Here is the link to the MS SDK:
>>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/m
>sdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true
>>
>> Any replies would be very welcome.
>



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