From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0227DBC69 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:44:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l62IhxiI012416 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:43:59 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.1] (rke75-3-82-229-183-156.fbx.proxad.net [82.229.183.156]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC695A166 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:43:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4689476E.8000405@frisch.fr> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:43:58 +0200 From: Alain Frisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cygwin, OCaml 3.10 and dllunix References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4689476F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; frisch:01 frisch:01 cygwin:01 ocaml:01 dllunix:01 cygwin:01 o'caml:01 3.08:01 dynlink:01 stub:01 runtimes:01 toplevels:01 dynlink:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 Igor Peshansky wrote: > You'd fix the dynamic loading mechanism to work in Cygwin. I have started > in that direction with O'Caml 3.08 (but the version I built broke Unison, > so it never got released -- I can send you my patches if you're > interested). Alain Frisch also announced having ported the Dynlink module > to Windows, which could be used in the Cygwin version. But the bottom > line is that nobody has made it work yet. I confirm that the natdynlink branch allows to load C stub DLLs (so that you don't need custom runtimes or toplevels), including with Cygwin. Note that this is largely independant of the port of Dynlink into native code. -- Alain