Building projects written in OCaml

Building projects written in OCaml

[Renald Buter]

Hello list,

Coming from an Ant/Java world, I am usually working in projects that have the
following directory structure:

 project
      |---src  ("plain" source files)
      |---test (unit testing)

What would a Makefile (possibly using OCamlMakefile) or OMakefile look
like that would allow me to:

 1. 'make XXX.ml' to compile XXX.ml into an object file
 2. 'make some-target' to build the executable some-target, depending on
    given object files
 3. 'make test' to build the test suite, depending on object files in
    the 'src' directory.

Any help is much appreciated!

With kind regards,

Renald

Re: [Caml-list] Building projects written in OCaml

[Martin Jambon]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Renald Buter wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> Coming from an Ant/Java world, I am usually working in projects that have the
> following directory structure:
>
>  project
>       |---src  ("plain" source files)
>       |---test (unit testing)
>
> What would a Makefile (possibly using OCamlMakefile) or OMakefile look
> like that would allow me to:
>
>  1. 'make XXX.ml' to compile XXX.ml into an object file
>  2. 'make some-target' to build the executable some-target, depending on
>     given object files
>  3. 'make test' to build the test suite, depending on object files in
>     the 'src' directory.
>
> Any help is much appreciated!

You can start there:
  http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/compiling_ocaml_projects


Martin

--
Martin Jambon, PhD
http://martin.jambon.free.fr

Re: [Caml-list] Building projects written in OCaml

[Nathaniel Gray]

On 8/23/06, Renald Buter <buter@cwts.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Coming from an Ant/Java world, I am usually working in projects that have the
> following directory structure:
>
>  project
>       |---src  ("plain" source files)
>       |---test (unit testing)
>
> What would a Makefile (possibly using OCamlMakefile) or OMakefile look
> like that would allow me to:
>
>  1. 'make XXX.ml' to compile XXX.ml into an object file
>  2. 'make some-target' to build the executable some-target, depending on
>     given object files
>  3. 'make test' to build the test suite, depending on object files in
>     the 'src' directory.
>
> Any help is much appreciated!

I'm somewhat experienced with OMake for small projects, so I'll try to
help with that.  You have lots of options, depending on if you want a
single OMakefile or one in each subdirectory, whether or not you're
using lexers and parsers, how modular you want things to be, and so
on.  To give you some idea, a quick single-file OMakefile like this in
the root directory would probably work.

########
.PHONY all test
NATIVE_ENABLED = true
BYTE_ENABLED = false

.SUBDIRS src
   FILES = foo bar bat baz
   OCamlProgram(some-target, $(FILES))
   all: some-target

targetExe = $(file src/some-target$(EXE))
.SUBDIRS test
   test1: $(targetExe)
      $(targetExe) ./test1-input > ./test1-output

   test: test1

########

If you want an OMakefile in each subdirectory, just cut the bodies of
the .SUBDIRS blocks and put them into the corresponding OMakefile's,
then use a single .SUBDIRS line like this:
.SUBDIRS src test

I'm sure there are others on this list with more OMake experience, so
if I've got something wrong please speak up!

Cheers,
-n8

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