Re: [Caml-list] ANN: Brand-new BER MetaOCaml for OCaml 4.00.1

[Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>]

You need to use 'metaocamlmktop' to make a custom top-level which 
supports metaocaml.  I have tested this, and it works.

I will let Oleg answer the other queries.

Jacques

On 13-02-18 10:37 PM, bob zhang wrote:
> Dear Oleg,
>    After reading the patch of BER MetaOCaml today, I found that it is 
> not too hard to port camlp4/Fan to support metaocaml.
>    I tried to compile and install metaocaml with the patches you provided:
>
>    I get an install error
> ./build/partial-install.sh: line 25: config/config.sh: No such file or 
> directory
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
>    After I ignore the error message, the metaocaml toplevel works 
> perfectly well.
>
>    But if I customized my own toplevel (I used my toplevel as 
> 'ocamlmktop -custom -o mocaml')
>    mocaml is bundled with compiler-libs, the toplevel does not work, I 
> get the following
>    error message:
>    # let spower7 = .! spower7_code;;
>    Error: Reference to undefined global `Runcode'
>
>   Currently metaocaml does not support native code, but it seems that 
> the patch only installs ocamlc, is it possible to get ocamlc.opt 
> installed as well? (not the ocamlopt.opt) ocamlbuild is not installed 
> either. It would be even nicer that ocamlopt.opt could be installed 
> without supporting metaocaml, otherwise I have to switch between 
> different compilers from time to time.
>
>    Would you mind get the ocamlbuild, ocamlc.opt also works? I would 
> be happy to port Fan/Camlp4 to support metaoaml, and it would be 
> really cool to get compile-time and run-time metaprogramming work together
>
>    Thank you in advance!