just my 2c,
a couple of weeks ago, i posted a little about the path that i followed  to
make a shared library with ocaml code, with links to readings that i had
found useful to do so

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2007/03/72f8409732a3aeb7a9d449c438bbff0e.fr.html
As Matthieu, nothing automatic.

2007/6/21, Matthieu Dubuget <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> 2007/6/21, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>:
> >
> > On Thursday 21 June 2007 11:15:39 Matthieu Dubuget wrote:
> > > 2007/6/21, Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>:
> > > > I tried to build a shared library for use with Ruby once and failed
> > > > miserably.
> > >
> > > Could you please elaborate about this? Maybe not on this thread.
> > >
> > > I ask this, because almost all my OCaml code is use as shared
> > libraries...
> >
> > I think a lot of people (myself included) would benefit enormously if
> > you
> > could explain in words of one syllable exactly how you can compile an
> > OCaml
> > program into a DLL (.so on Linux) and call it from C.
>
>
>
> Not an  OCaml "program". I simply write C DLLs embedding my Caml code as
> described in
> 18.7.5  Embedding the Caml code in the C codehttp://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual032.html#htoc238
>
>
> Nothing automatic. I manually write all C functions, have them call OCaml
> callbacks, etc.
> If this is actually what you have in mind, I can write and post one
> minimalistic example.
>
> It is possible to have a tool to turn one OCaml library (CMA/CMXA) into
> one shared library.
> See ODLL, from N. Canasse in the hump.
>
> Salutations
>
> Matt
>
>
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