Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnat

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

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Thanks for the info. I'll also copy that code to my separate repository,
so that everybody can easily start experimenting with it. I keep you
posted on what we find.

Gerd

Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2016, 10:50 +0100 schrieb Jeremie Dimino:
> ocamlnat indeed builds with 4.03 but is not built by default
> 
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Gabriel Scherer
> <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
>         Thomas Réfis and Jérémie Dimino have been working on ocamlnat
>         in trunk recently, and ocamlnat builds on either the "trunk"
>         branch or, I believe, the 4.03 release. You should talk to
>         them.
>         
>         
>         Let me take this an opportunity to advertise the "runtop"
>         target in the compiler distribution's Makefile, which runs a
>         toplevel from an (uninstalled) build of the compiler
>         distribution:
>         
>         
>           make runtop
>         
>           make natruntop
>         
>         
>         I added them during the 4.03+dev release cycle, but didn't
>         mention it in the Changelog (they're not user-facing features)
>         so most people keep doing weird incantations of
>         (./byterun/ocamlrun ./ocaml -I nostdlib ...) instead.
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Gerd Stolpmann
>         <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
>                 Hi,
>                 
>                 I've tried to reactivate the ocamlnat tool that comes
>                 with OCaml but
>                 isn't built (and even isn't buildable). This repo was
>                 tested against
>                 4.02.3:
>                 
>                 https://gitlab.camlcity.org/gerd/ocamlnat
>                 
>                 Since recently I'm quite interested in this, and would
>                 like to make it
>                 fully working, including ocamlfind support. For my use
>                 case the
>                 disadvantages of the ocamlnat approach (i.e. that it
>                 requires toolchain
>                 support for dynlinking, and that the executable
>                 continuously grows) do
>                 not matter - I really want it for interactive work,
>                 and not for
>                 scripting.
>                 
>                 Gerd
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>                 Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany
>                 gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
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>                 Contact details:
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>         
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeremie

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Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany    gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
My OCaml site:          http://www.camlcity.org
Contact details:        http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html
Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
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