Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[j h woodyatt]

On February 21, 2006 5:36:43 PM PST, David Powers  
<david@grayskies.net> wrote:
>
> I am attempting to install ocaml on a new OS X intel laptop, and a  
> few hours of poking has gotten me the bytecode tools, but not the  
> native compiler.  Is there any existing work on getting the native  
> compiler working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would  
> anyone like an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting  
> it working?  Since it is basically a BSD system with an intel chip  
> I'm hoping that its more a matter of some autoconfigure foo than  
> anything else.

What would be really cool here is the possibility of "universal"  
native code on Mac OS X.  I wonder if the .cmx and .cmxa file formats  
can do that?  (I'm just expressing a naïve hope.)


—
j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org>

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[Corey O'Connor]

On 2/22/06, j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org> wrote:
>
> What would be really cool here is the possibility of "universal"
> native code on Mac OS X.  I wonder if the .cmx and .cmxa file formats
> can do that?  (I'm just expressing a naïve hope.)

There may be no need to do anything special to .cmx .cmxa files. I
believe the command lipo can be used to combine a PPC and X86 binary,
once created, into a universal binary.

--
-Corey O'Connor

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David Powers]

That would work if you had both the PPC and Intel versions on hand - can 
the compiler be induced to output both of those on the same machine?

-David

Corey O'Connor wrote:
> On 2/22/06, j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org> wrote:
>> What would be really cool here is the possibility of "universal"
>> native code on Mac OS X.  I wonder if the .cmx and .cmxa file formats
>> can do that?  (I'm just expressing a naïve hope.)
> 
> There may be no need to do anything special to .cmx .cmxa files. I
> believe the command lipo can be used to combine a PPC and X86 binary,
> once created, into a universal binary.
> 
> --
> -Corey O'Connor
> 
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Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[James Woodyatt]

On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:35 AM, David Powers wrote:
>
> That would work if you had both the PPC and Intel versions on hand  
> - can the compiler be induced to output both of those on the same  
> machine?

I have long mused about the possibility of having native OCaml cross- 
compilers (I work on embedded software).  The Mac OS X universal  
binary problem is a special case of the more general problem I'm to  
which I'm adding my voice for the wishing of a solution.


—
j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org>

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David Powers]

Most excellent - I will contact him off list and at least offer him a 
shell account in the hopes that it can be helpful to the process.

thanks,
David

David MENTRE wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2006/2/22, David Powers <david@grayskies.net>:
>   
>>  Is there any existing work on getting the native compiler
>> working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would anyone like
>> an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting it working?
>>     
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/02/e372fc99b79b46a7af25cc560026115a.fr.html
>
> Best wishes,
> d.
>   

Re: [Caml-list] ocaml on OS X intel platform

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

2006/2/22, David Powers <david@grayskies.net>:
>  Is there any existing work on getting the native compiler
> working under the new Intel macs - or, failing that, would anyone like
> an ssh login to a machine to try their hand at getting it working?

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2006/02/e372fc99b79b46a7af25cc560026115a.fr.html

Best wishes,
d.