Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Lally Singh]

Hello,

  Has anyone had any success building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008?
The normal ocaml/win32 distribution's libcamlrun.a wants some symbols
no longer available on the newer runtime libraries (e.g. __pctype and
__alloca).

  I wiped my old cygwin install (which included, amongst other things,
ocaml and gcc), and made a minimal bash/sed/make/diffutils one, and
ran make under the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt.  With some path
adjustment for flexlink, I can get as far as this:

cp yacc/ocamlyacc.exe boot/ocamlyacc.exe
cd stdlib ; make -f Makefile.nt  COMPILER=../boot/ocamlc all
make[1]: Entering directory
`/c/real_cygwin/home/lsingh9/src/ocaml-3.11.2/stdlib'
../boot/ocamlrun ../boot/ocamlc -g -warn-error A -nostdlib
`./Compflags pervasives.cmi` -c pervasives.mli
Fatal error: unknown C primitive `caml_alloc_dummy'
make[1]: *** [pervasives.cmi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/real_cygwin/home/lsingh9/src/ocaml-3.11.2/stdlib'

Which leaves me rather confused.  Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
-Lally

Re: [Caml-list] Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Alain Frisch]

On 14/04/2010 18:46, Lally Singh wrote:
>    Has anyone had any success building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008?

We compile the win32 port with the Win7 SDK (Microsoft Windows SDK for 
Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1). As far as I know, this 
SDK contains the same toolchain as VS 2008. And note that despite its 
name, the SDK is not related to Win7 at all: it works for older of 
Windows as well.


-- Alain

Re: [Caml-list] Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Lally Singh]

Do you have a build procedure I could use?  My own attempts have been
rather terrible so far :-(


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com> wrote:
> On 14/04/2010 18:46, Lally Singh wrote:
>>
>>   Has anyone had any success building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008?
>
> We compile the win32 port with the Win7 SDK (Microsoft Windows SDK for
> Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1). As far as I know, this SDK
> contains the same toolchain as VS 2008. And note that despite its name, the
> SDK is not related to Win7 at all: it works for older of Windows as well.
>
>
> -- Alain
>
>
>

Re: [Caml-list] Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Alain Frisch]

On 14/04/2010 19:13, Lally Singh wrote:
> Do you have a build procedure I could use?  My own attempts have been
> rather terrible so far :-(

I don't think we do anything special (regular configuration steps for 
the Win32, and then "make -f Makefile.nt world").

-- Alain

Re: [Caml-list] Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Dmitry Bely]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com> wrote:
> On 14/04/2010 19:13, Lally Singh wrote:
>>
>> Do you have a build procedure I could use?  My own attempts have been
>> rather terrible so far :-(
>
> I don't think we do anything special (regular configuration steps for the
> Win32, and then "make -f Makefile.nt world").

Just to confirm that: it's build with my VS2008 without any special
efforts. Lally, are you sure that the correct bootstrap compiler is
used?

- Dmitry Bely

Re: Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Sylvain Le Gall]

On 14-04-2010, Lally Singh <lally.singh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have a build procedure I could use?  My own attempts have been
> rather terrible so far :-(
>

I can confirm that I have no particular problems building ocaml 3.11.2
with MSVS 2008.

>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com> wrote:
>> On 14/04/2010 18:46, Lally Singh wrote:
>>>
>>>   Has anyone had any success building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008?
>>
>> We compile the win32 port with the Win7 SDK (Microsoft Windows SDK for
>> Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1). As far as I know, this SDK
>> contains the same toolchain as VS 2008. And note that despite its name, the
>> SDK is not related to Win7 at all: it works for older of Windows as well.
>>

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008

[Lally Singh]

Ok, got it -- I had been running in cygwin/rxvt (but without the
visual studio env vars), and had some artifacts from there.  Untarring
from the source tree again and doing it in a cmd.exe shell ala
vcvars.bat seemed to do the trick (while also tweaking config/Makefile
a bit more).

Thanks everyone!

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net> wrote:
> On 14-04-2010, Lally Singh <lally.singh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you have a build procedure I could use?  My own attempts have been
>> rather terrible so far :-(
>>
>
> I can confirm that I have no particular problems building ocaml 3.11.2
> with MSVS 2008.
>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com> wrote:
>>> On 14/04/2010 18:46, Lally Singh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Has anyone had any success building ocaml on Win32 using VS 2008?
>>>
>>> We compile the win32 port with the Win7 SDK (Microsoft Windows SDK for
>>> Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1). As far as I know, this SDK
>>> contains the same toolchain as VS 2008. And note that despite its name, the
>>> SDK is not related to Win7 at all: it works for older of Windows as well.
>>>
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain Le Gall
>
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