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

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

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Hi again,

Following all the good suggestions in this thread, I've updated the 
installer. It now downloads and runs cygwin's setup.exe so as to provide 
a fully working environment for OCaml on windows after the installer 
completes. The cygwin installer runs in silent mode, that is, the 
progress window shows up, but there is no user prompt.

I've also looked into odb compatibility, and it looks like after writing 
a few patches, odb now runs fine on Windows. However, Oasis-generated 
setup.ml files do not work at all on windows. Any help in that area 
would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

jonathan

On 03/28/2012 02:24 PM, Jonathan Protzenko 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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