From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA25797; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:37:07 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA25910 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:37:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25774 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:21:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g826LkD09795 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:21:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lkZF-0006kH-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 08:20:09 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lkZD-0006k9-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 08:20:07 +0200 Path: not-for-mail From: "=?iso-8859-15?q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?=" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria Subject: [Caml-list] Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: objective caml and industry) Date: 02 Sep 2002 08:23:46 +0200 Organization: (none) Message-ID: <87n0r06hal.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> References: <002601c25051$1c9cb400$890bfea9@mimbi> <000101c25198$77b64cf0$0a00a8c0@gateway> <20020901201532.GA5274@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: amontpellier-203-1-3-17.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030947607 25533 80.14.50.17 (2 Sep 2002 06:20:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:20:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Markus Mottl writes: > On Sun, 01 Sep 2002, Mattias Waldau wrote: > > However, most of people on this list use *nix and create extra libraries > > for O'Caml on *nix. Most of these are useless for making commercial > > sellable software, since if you produce commercial software, you have > > to focus on what makes the software good and sellable, not learning > > how to compile PCRE on windows (Sorry Markus, just an example :-). > > No need to feel sorry! I work in a place privileged enough that I can > let Windows rot in benign neglect... ;-) > > In any case, the main issue of making PCRE work on Windows is the > C-library, for which you need a C-compiler and linker. The OCaml-part > should work out-of-the-box. It's therefore not so much a problem caused > by INRIA but by Microsoft not shipping standard development tools with > their operating systems. Maybe is it good advice to look after Cygwin ? > > So if you want O'Caml to be used by commercial developers creating > > commercial software, make sure that your libraries work on windows. > > Well, even with those difficulties put in our way by Microsoft, people > obviously manage to get around them. > > > Due to the above reasons I only use core Ocaml and pure > > Ocaml-libraries. I develop under Linux, in order to be able to debug, > > and create release on Windows. > > Unfortunately, not everbody has as much choice as we have... -- Michaël Grünewald - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners