Re: [Caml-list] GODI news

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:11:15AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:16, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > What would be nice is to be able to use ocaml in this cross compiling
> > environment, so you could use all the nice unix development tools, and
> > then produce windows executables for the people who need it, preferably
> > in a nice tarball including the needed dlls, or even a windows-installer-magic
> > thingy.
> 
> Well, you almost can: there is a bytecode compiler,
> and the bytecode objects produced are largely
> platform independent, and the bytecode interpreter

Well, the idea is to hve a native cross compiler. It should be able to
be done, the real problem is that ocaml uses various levels of
bootstraping, and thus tries to use the compiler to compile, which would
naturally not work in a cross compiling environment, unless you use
wine, that is.

The ocaml team is not interested by such a thing though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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