From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA08677 for caml-red; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:49:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14665 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:39:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9VKdX102385; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:39:33 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA13831; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:39:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <20001031213933.08870@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:39:33 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Mattias Waldau , Caml-List Subject: Re: ocamldebug for windows References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Mattias Waldau on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 03:50:30PM +0200 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr > Why doesn't it work on Windows? Is it dependant on the use of the windows > compiler tools? Well, the replay debugger for Caml relies on the Unix system call fork(), which Windows doesn't implement natively. > Would it be possible if we use Cygwin tools? Yes, because Cygwin provides an emulation of fork(). Actually, the working version of the OCaml sources include a Cygwin port where the debugger works (apparently). If you feel like beta-testing, you can get it from http://camlcvs.inria.fr/. The next release of OCaml will include Cygwin binaries. - Xavier Leroy