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From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: Yamagata Yoriyuki <yoriyuki@mbg.sphere.ne.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Question about linking and module initialization
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:34:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D84C49A.1030507@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020914.185852.74758150.yoriyuki@mbg.sphere.ne.jp>



Yamagata Yoriyuki wrote:

>>$ ocamlc -o app app.cma
> 
> 
> In this case, modules only used from the main program are linked.
> Since you don't provide anything except app.cma, I guess nothing is
> linked.

Ah, this is the point. I did not realize that modules in a 
library would be selected at linking time by ocamlc.

> Initialization is done by the linking order of modules in
> app.cma.

This is what I thought, but I did not realize that my 
executable would be entirely empty of modules.

> Everything is explained in the ocamlc section of the manual.

I had read it already, but I happened to overlook the fact 
that modules in libraries are linked only if referenced 
somewhere in the cmo files.

Thank you very much.

Alex

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      reply	other threads:[~2002-09-15 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-13 18:05 Alessandro Baretta
2002-09-14  9:58 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2002-09-15 17:34   ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]

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