[ANNOUNCE] OCaml Bitstring 2.0.2

[ANNOUNCE] OCaml Bitstring 2.0.2

[Richard Jones]

Bitstring is a syntax extension which adds Erlang-style bit matching
and construction to OCaml programs.  You can use this to efficiently
and safely parse communication protocols and binary file formats.

Bitstring handles integers, booleans, strings, sub-bitstrings, big-,
little- and native-endianness, signed and unsigned types,
variable-width fields, fields whose width depends on values in
previous fields, fields with arbitrary bit alignment, forward offsets,
when-clauses, checked expressions, security against buffer overflows
and DoS, and lots more.

Example:

  let bits = Bitstring.bitstring_of_file "image.gif" in
  bitmatch bits with
  | { ("GIF87a"|"GIF89a") : 6*8 : string; (* GIF magic. *)
      width : 16 : littleendian;
      height : 16 : littleendian } ->
      printf "%s: GIF image is %d x %d pixels" filename width height
  | { _ } ->
      eprintf "%s: Not a GIF image\n" filename

The latest version is 2.0.2 which fixes a number of compilation
problems related to OCaml 3.11, and incorporates some unofficial
patches which were floating around.  (Note that bitstring 2.0.0 is
known to be broken on Debian).

  Home page:
    http://code.google.com/p/bitstring/
  API documentation:
    http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/bitstring/html/Bitstring.html

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] OCaml Bitstring 2.0.2

[Mehdi Dogguy]

Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> The latest version is 2.0.2 which fixes a number of compilation
> problems related to OCaml 3.11, and incorporates some unofficial
> patches which were floating around.  (Note that bitstring 2.0.0 is
> known to be broken on Debian).
> 

Updated in Debian as well. OCaml Bitstring 2.0.2 will be available shortly.

Regards,

-- 
Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dogguy
Tel.: (+33).1.44.27.28.38

Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] OCaml Bitstring 2.0.2

[Matthieu Dubuget]

For those who would want to use bitstring on mingw, I had it compiled ok 
with the following:
> cp byteswap.in.h byteswap.h
> sed -i -e 's/-Werror -fPIC//' Makefile.in
> sed -i -e 's/open_in/open_in_bin/' pa_bitstring.ml 
> create_test_pattern.ml bitstring_objinfo.ml
> ./configure CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin"
> make


The test target is also buggy on mingw.

But the library is working ok

Salutations

Matt

Re: [Caml-list] [ANNOUNCE] OCaml Bitstring 2.0.2

[Matthieu Dubuget]

Oups. I forgot one modification:

> cp byteswap.in.h byteswap.h
> sed -i -e 's/-Werror -fPIC//' -e 's/\*\.so/\*.dll/' Makefile.in
> sed -i -e 's/open_in/open_in_bin/' pa_bitstring.ml create_test_pattern.ml bitstring_objinfo.ml
> ./configure CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin"
> make
> make install

Salutations

Matt

ANN: UseOcaml.cmake script

[Keyan]

Hi,

i am not sure, if this is of interest here, but i give it a try. i use cmake heavily to compile my projects, so i wrote 
a UseOcaml.cmake script, adapted from UseLATEX.cmake, to do the job for me. it can be found here:

http://yars.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/yars/branches/yars-refactoring/modules/UseOcaml.cmake?revision=509&view=markup

it is not complete yet, but it allows to easily compile ocaml-binaries in the following way:

  ADD_OCAML_TARGET(
      OUTPUT    loc
      MAIN      loc.ml
      SOURCES   file_node.ml  files.ml  io.ml  file_statistics.ml  message_node.ml
      HEADERS   file_node.mli files.mli io.mli file_statistics.mli message_node.mli
      LIBRARIES unix.cmxa str.cmxa extLib.cmxa
      INCLUDES  /opt/local/lib/ocaml/site-lib/extlib
      )

one current problem is that i cannot add multiple entries to the INCLUDES.

i am happy to receive comments.

cheers,
keyan