Re: [Caml-list] Telling Ocamlbuild to link seemingly unreferenced modules

[Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

> I'm not exactly sure this is a complete answer to your problem (I'm not > familiar with plugin linking and all that), but here is a small test:
>
> (...)
>
> I don't know the exact semantics of this 'dispatch' function
> (After_rules, etc.), I just imitated it from an other project doing a
> similar thing. I suppose you could find more detailed answers in the
> ocamlbuild documentation.

Thanks for the input, Gabriel.  Directly hacking the myocamlbuild.ml file
does work, and the process may be even further simplified with just a
couple of lines:

dep ["ocaml"; "link"; "native"] ["foo.cmx"];
dep ["ocaml"; "link"; "byte"] ["foo.cmo"];

However, I still wonder if there's some other incantation that would tell
Ocamlbuild to link in a given module without requiring tweaking myocamlbuild.ml.
Also, I suspect it is possible to further condense the two lines above
into a single one.

cheers,
Dario