From: Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>
To: Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New version of the binary installer for Windows
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:42:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7377C8.6070406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP5QFJnOjV114w-X0S9xJO5UT_mbNZDWZvWNXnbJPXnELcvdYg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/28/2012 07:36 PM, Adrien wrote:
> On 28/03/2012, Wojciech Meyer<wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Protzenko
>> <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, ocamlbuild requires a unix-like environment, with a few
>>> utilities in the path: bash, mkdir...
>> It looks like he's got a partially installed environment - as bash is there.
>>
>>> The installer only provides the very basics. It does not provide a unix
>>> environment on windows, only the ocaml binaries, flexlink, and ocamlfind.
>>> If
>>> you want to go further, e.g. use ocamlbuild, or benefit from native
>>> compilation, you need to install a development environment, such as
>>> cygwin,
>>> or msys. Currently, because of bug 5465, cygwin is the recommended way.
>>>
>>> I've successfully used ocamlbuild under cygwin and msys, and it works
>>> fine.
>> How about bundling the installer with cygwin or msys? Beware of the
>> license issues however.
> Or make ocamlbuild not depend on bash. Only depending on a compliant
> sh would already be quite nice but afaik, it should be possible to not
> depend on a shell at all with minimal efforts.
Any patches will be more than welcome, of course :). I've been in the
process of trying to fix a bug related to ocamlbuild on windows, and the
code is pretty, daunting, to say the least. Any contributions in that
area would be most appreciated, and I'd be more than happy to review them!
Cheers,
jonathan
>
> Regards,
> Adrien Nader
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 12:24 Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 14:55 ` Kakadu
2012-03-28 15:19 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 15:25 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-03-28 15:38 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 15:54 ` David Allsopp
2012-03-28 16:04 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-28 17:36 ` Adrien
2012-03-28 20:42 ` Jonathan Protzenko [this message]
2012-03-29 11:55 ` Kakadu
2012-03-29 12:18 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-03-29 12:19 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-29 12:27 ` Kakadu
2012-03-28 15:32 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-30 14:15 ` [Caml-list] " Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-30 14:41 ` David Allsopp
2012-03-30 17:38 ` Kakadu
2012-04-03 12:32 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-03-31 9:34 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2012-04-02 8:03 ` Romain Bardou
2012-04-02 8:21 ` Alain Frisch
2012-04-02 8:23 ` David Allsopp
2012-04-02 11:14 ` Adrien
2012-04-02 11:39 ` Romain Bardou
2012-04-02 11:53 ` Jonathan Protzenko
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