Re: [Caml-list] Dynlink

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

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Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2015, 15:44 +0200 schrieb Sébastien Hinderer:
> Dear Xavier,
> 
> Many thanks for your response.
> 
> > You can't get more precise than the configure script of OCaml :-)
> 
> Sure!
> 
> > > Is there a way for a configure script to programmatically determine the
> > > availability of the feature on one given platform?
> > 
> > Just check for the presence of dynlink.cmxa in OCaml's standard
> > library directory.
> 
> OK! Quitesimple,thanks.
> 
> So am I correct that the question ``is Dynlink supported'' only makes
> sense when one compiles a native-code program, because this always works
> for byte-code?

The question makes also a lot of sense for bytecode, because not all
platforms can load dll's. Bytecode that does not need additional dll's
can always be loaded.

On the command-line you can check with something like

echo '' | ocaml unix.cma -stdin

(unchecked, let's hope the error is correctly propagated). E.g. an
unsupported platform used to be Cygwin.

Gerd
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