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