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 LAA27151; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:38:14 +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 LAA25201 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:38:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay2.uniklinik-freiburg.de (skl2.ukl.uni-freiburg.de [193.196.199.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i839cCQe031286 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:38:13 +0200 Received: from vscanmailb.ukl.uni-freiburg.de (vscanmailb.uniklinik-freiburg.de [193.196.199.48]) by relay2.uniklinik-freiburg.de (Email) with SMTP id 4A3753A026 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:38:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: FROM [193.196.197.139] BY vscanmailb.ukl.uni-freiburg.de ; Fri Sep 03 11:47:10 2004 +0200 Message-ID: <41383B3F.8020808@uniklinik-freiburg.de> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:37:03 +0200 From: Martin Boeker Reply-To: martin.boeker@uniklinik-freiburg.de User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Pechtchanski Cc: Caml Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Caml-list] Cygwin now has ocaml 3.08.1] References: <4136E635.6060900@uniklinik-freiburg.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41383B85.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 cygwin:01 --prefix:01 cygwin:01 usr:01 usr:01 mount:01 cpan:01 beginners:01 pxp:01 stolpmann:01 pcre:01 findlib:01 ocamlnet:01 wlex:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Martin Boeker wrote: > >> Oddly, the paths of the bin and lib branches (the --prefix configure >> option) are not set the Cygwin standard way so that they land in > > ^^^ > >> /usr/bin and /usr/lib (ususally /usr/local ...). > > > One quick question: is the "not" above (underlined) a typo, or did you > mean to say that? Unless it's a typo, it's a bit confusing. > Igor No, that was not a typo, but your are right, I had problems with my Cygwin mount points (this automatic mounting in the Cygwin setup scripts). The other question is about the GODI distribution which I don't think is intended to be compared to CPAN but would like to make ocaml and library distribution easier and in a kind standardized (http://www.ocaml-programming.de/godi/). For Cygwin beginners this procedures of building Ocaml and then Ocaml libraries from source could be in a way to difficult or "tedious" before they could use Ocaml. So, my idea about creation of a Cygwin Ocaml library package wasn't meant to include GODI in this package. But, GODI could be an example of what libraries are important for other developers. Actually, GODI shows which libraries can be built relatively easily under Cygwin. Personally, I'm using the libraries around the pxp XML Parser from G. Stolpmann (PCRE, findlib, ocamlnet, wlex, pxp) and I can remember what problems I had in the beginning to build PCRE-Ocaml (STATIC=1 and so on; even more in the times the Cygwin-PCRE package wasn't updated). Without PCRE-Ocaml nothing would work, so I was stuck. I think for beginners and even for every developer in OCaml (Cygwin) a Cygwin package including such libraries would be very valuable. Martin ------------------- 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