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From: "Charles Hymans" <charles.hymans@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: ocamlopt, .cmxa and "not a compilation unit description" error Options
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:15:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <676aba050806101115p2e7ffd35hfead041ff3f4af75@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

I'd like to generate a library from a file that uses the nums library
(in a way such that the final user of my library does not have to
specify that nums is necessary).

I was able to generate a .cma with the following command:
ocamlc -a nums.cma file.ml -o lib.cma

However to generate a .cmxa, the command:
ocamlopt -a nums.cmxa file.ml -o lib.cmxa

fails and reports the error that "nums.cmxa is not a compilation unit
description."

I can always do:
ocamlopt -a file.ml -o lib.cmxa

But the user of my library will have to necessarily specify nums.cmxa
when compiling his project.
Is there a way to go around this? (for instance, by putting the option
nums.cmxa into the library?)

Thank you.

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 18:15 Charles Hymans [this message]
2008-06-10 19:57 ` [Caml-list] ocamlopt,.cmxa " David Allsopp
2008-06-10 20:57 ` [Caml-list] ocamlopt, .cmxa " Richard Jones
2008-06-11 19:28 ` Nicolas Pouillard

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