From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA09570; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:11:31 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA15881 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:11:30 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from smtp.easystreet.com (easystreet.com [206.26.36.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA5IBT512806 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:11:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from easystreet.com (dial-206-103-58-101.dial.easystreet.com [206.103.58.101]) by smtp.easystreet.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id gA5IBPW17992 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:11:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DC80A15.84B8C129@easystreet.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:12:37 -0800 From: achrist@easystreet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Windows please advise References: <20021104212354.44502.qmail@web20504.mail.yahoo.com> <005901c284ef$c7cebc60$6e00a8c0@warp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > > > Say I'm developing software on MS Windows for > > deployment on MS Windows. > > > > Is anybody else doing this with OCaml? > > Yes, some people are doing it ( including myself ) > > > Would this be a silly thing to do, because I wouldn't > > have access to the full set of OCaml development > > tools? > > Silly ? Not at all. > Currently the only really missing tool is the ocaml debugger ( for the MSVC > build ), but you can live without it. > The main problem for you is that you'll find less people being able to > answer you if you have win32-specific ocaml problems. > I'd like to do GUI and other interfaces with one of the Windows RAD tools (e.g. Delphi) that is well-developed for such things and do back-end algorithms in OCaml. For this to work the Windows way, the OCaml should probably be packaged as a COM server or DLL. Is anyone doing this with good success? Any details on how would be welcome. TIA Al ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners