From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA02387; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:35:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 JAA27693 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:35:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (smtp8.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h7A7Zlf29421 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:35:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from iliana (AStrasbourg-206-1-17-10.w81-48.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.48.190.10]) by mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5216DC0000C5; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:35:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19lkjy-00026x-00; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:35:46 +0200 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:35:45 +0200 To: skaller Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GODI news Message-ID: <20030810073545.GA2114@iliana> References: <1060377600.1229.53.camel@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20030808213705.GB21525@swordfish> <1060419878.988.36.camel@ice.gerd-stolpmann.de> <20030809170549.GH21525@swordfish> <3F354101.40700@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> <20030809211647.GA31982@iliana> <1060477875.29669.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060477875.29669.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Sven Luther X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; sven:01 luther:01 caml-list:01 dlls:01 thingy:01 wine:99 compiler:01 ocaml:01 bytecode:01 executables:01 compile:02 native:02 unix:02 objects:02 interpreter:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners