Re: [Caml-list] Linking with zlib on ubuntu

[Aziem Chawdhary <aziem@chawdhary.co.uk>]

When using ocamlbuild, I find it much easier to pass things like linker
flags via tags, rather than passing it via the command line, as
mentioned in the ocamlbuild manual:

https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild/blob/master/manual/manual.adoc#tags-and-the-code-_tags-code-file

As a side-note, for building mixed C/OCaml projects, I highly recommend
looking at OCaml-Ctypes (https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-ctypes): it
has really made interfacing OCaml with C much more pleasant in my
experience.

Hope that helps!
Aziem


Alexey Egorov <electreg@list.ru> writes:

> Thanks, it solves the problem!
>
> Unfortunately, ocamlbuild adds lflags at the beggining of ocamlopt invocation, so a little hacking required to make it work.
>
>
>>Среда,  3 мая 2017, 0:28 +05:00 от Aziem Chawdhary <aziem@chawdhary.co.uk>:
>>
>>
>>I think the linker flag is in the wrong place. So (from the
>>github gist), instead of doing:
>>
>>ocamlopt -cclib -lz main.cmx test.o -o binary
>>
>>do the following:
>>
>>ocamlopt test.o -cclib -lz main.cmx -o binary
>>
>>This passes the linker flags to gcc in the correct order (i.e -lz before
>>test.o). You can see the gcc commands invoked by adding the -verbose option
>>to ocamlopt.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Aziem
>>
>>
>>Alexey Egorov < electreg@list.ru > writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to create mixed OCaml + C binary and got strange linker errors:  https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cc2b69c9e86ff2213e03f59a1ac5494b
>>> I have zlib1g-dev installed and linking pure C executable with gcc is working.
>>> Also I have no problem compiling this example on Centos 7.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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