Re: [Caml-list] [Question] Compile a custom toplevel on Windows

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017, paul.lachat@edu.univ-fcomte.fr wrote:
> I want to compile the toplevel to have a .exe, so I could avoid using Cygwin to launch the application. 

"Using Cygwin" can be quite broad, does it mean that you want to avoid
the whole cygwin setup (through its setup.exe and everything) or also
avoid the cygwin1.dll dependency?

Usually, distributing an application built with Cygwin doesn't require
distributing more than the cygwin1.dll file. For the ocaml binaries, I
think that Cygwin adds no dependency other than this file.

If it were already merely cygwin1.dll that you're trying to avoid, I
invite you to think more about it and to compare the difficulties of
doing this build with the gains of avoiding it. It's a single file,
apparently only the ocaml compiler/toplevel will be linked against it,
and chances are that you already have an infrastructure able to provide
several files (e.g. all the .cm* files).

In both cases however, the filesystem interactions will reflect the
Cygwin lineage but if you are not doing such operations, the negative
impact of Cygwin should be minimal.

-- 
Adrien Nader