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, 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.Nothing automatic. I manually write all C functions, have them call OCaml callbacks, etc.
Not an OCaml "program". I simply write C DLLs embedding my Caml code as described in18.7.5 Embedding the Caml code in the C code
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual032.html#htoc238
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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