Re: [Caml-list] New version of the binary installer for Windows

[Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>]

Yes I was about to give a similar reply. I've tested various features 
using a install location with spaces, and the basics work fine, so I 
surmise this is an issue in setup.ml

Cheers,

jonathan

On Thu 29 Mar 2012 02:18:16 PM CEST, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
>> P.S.
>> Btw, If I install OCaml to Program Files and call `ocaml setup.ml
>> -someoption` in cmd  everything fails because ocamlbuild is not found
>> (space in the path).
>
> That may be an issue with oasis (the tool that produced this setup.ml
> file) rather than the presently discussed installer. Filename space
> escaping is considered tricky by some third-party tools developper,
> and I remember hearing the advice to simply put any
> programming-oriented program in a path with no spaces. It's of course
> a good thing that you detect and report space-related bugs to the ton
> of third-party tools that choke on them, but you may have an easier
> route just moving your installation(s) to a Prog\ directory, with no
> spaces.
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Kakadu <kakadu.hafanana@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've understanded problem. My bash was misconfigured.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Kakadu
>>
>> P.S.
>> Btw, If I install OCaml to Program Files and call `ocaml setup.ml
>> -someoption` in cmd  everything fails because ocamlbuild is not found
>> (space in the path).
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Protzenko
>> <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, ocamlbuild requires a unix-like environment, with a few
>>> utilities in the path: bash, mkdir...
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed 28 Mar 2012 04:55:25 PM CEST, Kakadu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Can you test ocamlbuild on windows? On my vertual machine with XP it
>>>> can't create _build directory and says
>>>>
>>>> C:\prog\1>ocamlbuild main.byte
>>>> mkdir "C:\prog\1\_build"
>>>> bash: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
>>>> bash: mkdir: command not found
>>>> Failure: Error during command `mkdir "C:\prog\1\_build"'.
>>>> Exit code 127.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Kakadu
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jonathan Protzenko
>>>> <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've spent the past few days improving the OCaml installer for windows.
>>>>> This
>>>>> should solve all issues that have been mentioned previously. This in
>>>>> preparation for the upcoming 4.0 release ; therefore, the "beta
>>>>> installer"
>>>>> below will install a fairly recent trunk version of OCaml.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://yquem.inria.fr/~protzenk/caml-installer/ocaml-4.01.0+dev0-i686-mingw64.exe
>>>>>
>>>>> Changelog:
>>>>>
>>>>> - The installer packages a working and well-configured findlib, out of
>>>>> the
>>>>> box. This means you can open up cmd.exe, type ocaml, then type #use
>>>>> "topfind";; in the top-level.
>>>>> - The installer no longer blasts the PATH variable if it is too long.
>>>>> Moreover, it is now able to deal with PATHs that are up to 8192 bytes
>>>>> long.
>>>>> - The installer is now able to deal with multi-user privileges: in
>>>>> particular, you can use this installer on a limited account: OCaml will
>>>>> properly install into your local "Application Data" folder if you don't
>>>>> have
>>>>> administrator rights on your machine. This should be particularly useful
>>>>> for
>>>>> school computers that run Windows.
>>>>> - Various fixes: better cleanups on exit, minor fixes for OCamlWinPlus,
>>>>> properly warn the user if it was unable to download ActiveTCL from the
>>>>> internet.
>>>>> - The installer packages a newer version of flexlink, so you shouldn't
>>>>> have
>>>>> any more issues with gcc not accepting the -mno-cygwin option. However,
>>>>> the
>>>>> new, official toolchain uses the mingw64 32-bit compilers. This means
>>>>> flexlink will look for a i686-w64-mingw32-gcc in your path whenever you
>>>>> try
>>>>> to do native compilation. The official, recommended way to work is to
>>>>> install cygwin and its mingw64 packages. While in theory it should be
>>>>> possible to work within a MSys environment, some issues [1] currently
>>>>> prevent you from doing so.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5465
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if anything doesn't work as expected. This will be the
>>>>> official installer for the 4.0 release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> jonathan
>>
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