ocaml on OS X intel platform

ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David Powers]

I am attempting to install ocaml on a new OS X intel laptop, and a few 
hours of poking has gotten me the bytecode tools, but not the native 
compiler.  Is there any existing work on getting the native compiler 
working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would anyone like 
an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting it working?  
Since it is basically a BSD system with an intel chip I'm hoping that 
its more a matter of some autoconfigure foo than anything else.

-David

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

2006/2/22, David Powers <david@grayskies.net>:
>  Is there any existing work on getting the native compiler
> working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would anyone like
> an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting it working?

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/02/e372fc99b79b46a7af25cc560026115a.fr.html

Best wishes,
d.

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David Powers]

Most excellent - I will contact him off list and at least offer him a 
shell account in the hopes that it can be helpful to the process.

thanks,
David

David MENTRE wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2006/2/22, David Powers <david@grayskies.net>:
>   
>>  Is there any existing work on getting the native compiler
>> working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would anyone like
>> an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting it working?
>>     
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/02/e372fc99b79b46a7af25cc560026115a.fr.html
>
> Best wishes,
> d.
>   

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[James Woodyatt]

On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:35 AM, David Powers wrote:
>
> That would work if you had both the PPC and Intel versions on hand  
> - can the compiler be induced to output both of those on the same  
> machine?

I have long mused about the possibility of having native OCaml cross- 
compilers (I work on embedded software).  The Mac OS X universal  
binary problem is a special case of the more general problem I'm to  
which I'm adding my voice for the wishing of a solution.


—
j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org>

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David Powers]

That would work if you had both the PPC and Intel versions on hand - can 
the compiler be induced to output both of those on the same machine?

-David

Corey O'Connor wrote:
> On 2/22/06, j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org> wrote:
>> What would be really cool here is the possibility of "universal"
>> native code on Mac OS X.  I wonder if the .cmx and .cmxa file formats
>> can do that?  (I'm just expressing a naïve hope.)
> 
> There may be no need to do anything special to .cmx .cmxa files. I
> believe the command lipo can be used to combine a PPC and X86 binary,
> once created, into a universal binary.
> 
> --
> -Corey O'Connor
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Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[Corey O'Connor]

On 2/22/06, j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org> wrote:
>
> What would be really cool here is the possibility of "universal"
> native code on Mac OS X.  I wonder if the .cmx and .cmxa file formats
> can do that?  (I'm just expressing a naïve hope.)

There may be no need to do anything special to .cmx .cmxa files. I
believe the command lipo can be used to combine a PPC and X86 binary,
once created, into a universal binary.

--
-Corey O'Connor

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[j h woodyatt]

On February 21, 2006 5:36:43 PM PST, David Powers  
<david@grayskies.net> wrote:
>
> I am attempting to install ocaml on a new OS X intel laptop, and a  
> few hours of poking has gotten me the bytecode tools, but not the  
> native compiler.  Is there any existing work on getting the native  
> compiler working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would  
> anyone like an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting  
> it working?  Since it is basically a BSD system with an intel chip  
> I'm hoping that its more a matter of some autoconfigure foo than  
> anything else.

What would be really cool here is the possibility of "universal"  
native code on Mac OS X.  I wonder if the .cmx and .cmxa file formats  
can do that?  (I'm just expressing a naïve hope.)


—
j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org>