From: Christoph Pingel <cip22@denkzeug.de>
To: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] pcre build problems on Mac OS X
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:15:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99C8A602-0EFF-43C0-AD6E-DD736F6160C0@denkzeug.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817064820.d62b1b55.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
Thanks, Erik, I just figured that one out by myself - I embarassingly
forgot step one from the install instructions. :-)
Works just fine now.
best regards,
Christoph
Am 16.08.2006 um 22:48 Uhr schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> I must admit that I've never built PCRE from scratch but I might
> still be able to help.
>
> Christoph wrote:
>
>> Trying to 'make' or 'gmake' pcre on ocaml 3.09.2, I get the following
>> traceback:
>>
>> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/work/pcre-ocaml-5.11.1/lib'
>> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/work/pcre-ocaml-5.11.1/lib'
>> ocamldep pcre.mli > ._bcdi/pcre.di
>> ocamldep pcre.ml > ._d/pcre.d
>> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/work/pcre-ocaml-5.11.1/lib'
>> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/work/pcre-ocaml-5.11.1/lib'
>> ocamlc -c -cc "cc" -ccopt "-fPIC -O2 \
>> -DPIC \
>> -o pcre_stubs.o " pcre_stubs.c
>> pcre_stubs.c:40:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
>
> Thats probably because you haven't install PCRE first.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Looking into the distribution, I see that pcre.h is only in the 'win'
>> directory - is that how it's supposed to be?
>
> Probably. Building any Unix software on windows is a royal PITA
> so people often include a bunch of special files for building
> under windows.
>
> For sane systems like Unix and MaxOSX, building PCRE support for
> Ocaml probably requires that the PCRE library is already installed
> on the system. You can get that library here:
>
> http://www.pcre.org/
>
> There may also be instructions with the Ocaml bindings. You should
> read the Unix section of those instructions.
>
> Erik
> --
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> Erik de Castro Lopo
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> "Every time you get a windows programmer asking you to write some
> ass-backward workaround, think of it as a crack junkie asking you
> to help stuff his pipe because his hands are too shaky."
> -- Conrad Parker
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 15:04 Christoph
2006-08-16 20:48 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-08-16 21:15 ` Christoph Pingel [this message]
2006-08-17 2:36 ` skaller
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