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

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

On 03/30/2012 07:38 PM, Kakadu wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
>
> Can you test compilation using camlp4r preprocessor?
>   It says that "OCaml and preprocessor have incompatible version" on my windows.
Same here. I have no idea why this is, maybe camlp4r hasn't been updated 
with the latest changes on trunk, or maybe it is unable to parse the 
"+dev" version number... anyway, I'm not a camlp4 expert, so I can't do 
much here :).

Cheers,

jonathan
>
> Best wishes,
> Kakadu
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Protzenko
> <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>