AW: ocaml needs users: native code for windows?

AW: ocaml needs users: native code for windows?

[Carsten Clasohm]

> You still can't ship a plain binary, can you?

I can. I use ocamlopt to compile the OCaml code and link the object files and some OCaml libraries to my Win32 executable. Linking is done by VisualC++. (In practice it's a bit more complicated, as e.g. you have to link the additional file "camlstartup.asm" that would be automatically added if you used ocamlopt for linking. And there seems to be a conflict between Microsoft's runtime string functions and the regexp package delivered with OCaml. So I replaced the C regexp functions in OCaml's libstr.)

> At least the source code to MFC is
> available to anybody who buys VC++, so it is just a simple (!) matter
> of trascribing it from C++ to OCaml, right ?

That's right. And it's indeed easy to port C++ code to OCaml.

But VisualC++ would still have the advantage of offering a simple way to design GUI resources and link them with your code in an easy way (via message maps).