RE: [Caml-list] Standalone executable

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Montag, den 31.10.2011, 15:27 +0000 schrieb David Allsopp:
> Andreea Costea wrote:
> > For some days now, I was searching to see if there is any way you can build
> > an executable from an OCaml project, that can later be run from another 
> > machine that doesn't have OCaml installed on (not even the runtime system).
> > Same type of Unix based OS, though.
> 
> Compile it with ocamlopt instead of ocamlc - Chapter 11 of the manual (which it's a little surprising you hadn't got to, if you've been looking for a few days)... http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual025.html
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> "This chapter describes the OCaml high-performance native-code compiler ocamlopt, which compiles Caml source files to native code object files and link these object files to produce standalone executables."

If you need to stay with ocamlc, you can also set the -custom option. In
this case, the whole runtime system is included into the link, and the
resulting executable only depends on the C libraries pulled in.

Gerd


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