From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native dynlink on 3.11: a request for packagers
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:19:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811220119.38157.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <755814.6350.qm@web111514.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
On Friday 21 November 2008 23:45:34 Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Does ocamlfind support any of this? Since I'm now also
> > cross-compiling OCaml, I've certainly come to appreciate
> > findlib more than ever.
>
> Indeed it does. The current version of Ocsigen already
> makes use of this feature. However, because very few
> (none, actually, other than Ocsigen's) packages currently
> ship with cmxs files, an Ocsigen user who wants to play
> with native code is forced to manually generate them.
> (What impelled me to write the request was precisely
> having just gone through the process of producing the
> cmxs for a bunch of Ocamlnet and PXP libraries...)
This begs the question: what is the advantage of a .cmxa over a .cmxs, and
what are the downsides of linking everything dynamically?
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-22 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 19:29 Dario Teixeira
2008-11-21 23:18 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-11-21 23:45 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-11-22 1:19 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-11-22 7:40 ` David Allsopp
2008-11-22 15:33 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-11-22 19:02 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-11-22 11:22 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-22 15:00 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-22 18:40 ` Alain Frisch
2008-11-25 19:36 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-25 20:48 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-11-26 8:16 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
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