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 KAA15366; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:32:09 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15077 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:32:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g9E8W7D23782 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:32:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 43256 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2002 08:32:04 -0000 Received: from adsl-host-sf-228.apexworld.net (HELO checkerlap.d6.com) (66.114.212.228) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2002 08:32:04 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.114.212.228 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20021014011024.01b63870@mail.d6.com> X-Sender: checker@mail.d6.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:26:41 -0700 To: Xavier Leroy From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "-pack" on win32/msvc Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20021013120945.D19319@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021011115333.01ab8720@mail.d6.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20021011115333.01ab8720@mail.d6.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >A perhaps less risky alternative is to use the mingw build of OCaml. >I encourage all our advanced Windows users to give it a try and let us >know if it works well. If it does, it might provide a better >alternative to the MSVC build (working -pack, no need to fetch MASM >from obscure places, etc). I think we need to keep the msvc build running properly. As I've said before, I think most professional (as opposed to academic) windows programmers are more comfortable with msvc, for better or for worse. Of course, if the solution to the -pack problem is to have people install binutils, then it's not a pure msvc solution anyway...but, it's still better to be able to use all of the familiar tools (like the debugger) on the resulting executables and any c code linked in. Downloading binutils is just a minor annoyance, as is downloading masm. Switching compilers is a more major step for people (after they've already chosen to try out ocaml). Another option is to require binutils for the msvc build, and get rid of the masm requirement and just use "as" as the assembler, since it generates coff anyway. That would coallesce all the i386 code that's currently duplicated between gnu and masm in the whole compiler, and you'd get -pack working on msvc as part of this. > I don't fully understand what you're describing. Let us (you and me) >discuss that off-list once you've experimented some more. Okay, I'll mail you. Chris ------------------- 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