From: Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] New iteration of the Windows installer
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:57:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FB9E92.1010107@gmail.com> (raw)
Dear OCaml programmers using Windows,
I'm happy to announce a new iteration of the Windows installer that I'm
currently maintaining. The installer installs /native/, 32-bit OCaml
compilers, that produce /native/, 32-bit windows programs. The OCaml
native compiler ("ocamlopt") and tools (flexlink) requires a proper
toolchain to be installed, namely the 32-bit one from the mingw64
project. This toolchain is impeccably packaged in Cygwin, so the
installer will advertise the use of cygwin as a development
environment. Some other tools require the presence of Unix-like
utilities; OCamlbuild, for instance, requires bash to be available.
This is also achieved by using Cygwin as a development environment. The
installer also installs findlib.
The installer does _not_ install any other OCaml library. This is the
job of a package manager; unfortunately, there is still a long way to
go on Windows. If I can tweak anything in the installer that would ease
the life of a package manager, please let me know.
This release fixes several bugs that have been mentioned on this list.
- The Cygwin mirror is no longer hardcoded. The original idea was to
save the user one more setup screen, where they have to choose which
Cygwin mirror they use; mirrors, however, seem to come and go pretty
fast, which probably explains why people witnessed packages which were
not installed properly.
- The URL to the ActiveTCL installer has been updated.
- Flexdll has been updated to v0.31
- findlib.cmxa is now also packaged.
The installer is available at
http://yquem.inria.fr/~protzenk/caml-installer/ocaml-4.00.1-i686-mingw64-installer2.exe
Please give it a try and let me know how things work. If everything
goes fine, I'll make this the default installer advertised on
http://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/.
Cheers,
~ jonathan
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