That sounds promising. I look forward to your patch. :)

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:54 PM, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
wrote:

> Yes – I had patched it for MSVC. The results are very good and at some
> point I’ll package it up properly for merging.
>
>
>
> Note that the interop is trickier for the mingw ports because the
> resulting executables need to be able to call *into* LXSS. There’s also
> some pain with setting environment variables when calling Win32 processes,
> which is why I hadn’t got around to finishing it off.
>
>
>
> Cygwin will only truly redundant if/when LXSS is available on all
> platforms – it’s only Windows 10 and not Server 2016 (to say nothing of
> older versions of Windows).
>
>
>
>
>
> --dra
>
>
>
> *From:* caml-list-request@inria.fr [mailto:caml-list-request@inria.fr] *On
> Behalf Of *Bikal Gurung
> *Sent:* 16 March 2017 12:09
> *To:* David Scott <scott.dj@gmail.com>; paul.lachat@edu.univ-fcomte.fr
> *Cc:* caml-list@inria.fr
> *Subject:* Re: [Caml-list] [Question] Named pipe on Windows.
>
>
>
> With regards to ocaml on windows, has anyone tried using bash on windows
> and ocaml built using msvc/mingw?
>
> Bash on windows now supports calling native windows binaries from within
> the bash shell itself.
>
>
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/interop#
> invoking-windows-binaries-from-wsl
>
>
>
> I am guessing this probably makes Cygwin redundant as a ocaml build
> environment.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 at 09:38, David Scott <scott.dj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:02 AM, <paul.lachat@edu.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to setup communication between two Ocaml processes on Windows.
> I think that using the named pipe of Windows is the good method to do this
> task.
>
> But I can't find any module for Ocaml who allow using the system call of
> Windows.
>
>
>
> I have already find this module https://opam.ocaml.org/
> packages/named-pipe/, but it use C,
> and I would like to avoid depending on another langage than Ocaml or
> software like Cygwin.
>
>
>
> Although I'm one of the authors of that particular library I now prefer to
> use this other library instead:
>
>
>
> https://github.com/fdopen/uwt
>
> https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/uwt/
>
>
>
> where "Uwt.Pipe" is a Unix domain socket on Unix and a named pipe on
> Windows. I'm very happy with "uwt" -- it seems to be very stable and
> reliable, despite the relatively low version number.
>
>
>
> Personally I don't want my final executables to depend on the cygwin.dll
> but I don't mind if my development environment uses cygwin for the Unix
> utilities like "make", "vi" etc. I usually install OCaml one Windows using
> this installer:
>
>
>
> http://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/installation/
>
>
>
> -- this installs everything you need (including Cygwin). I then `opam
> install` my dependencies and `make`, like I can on Unix. My resulting .exe
> files are independent of cygwin.dll and I ship them as-is.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps a little,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> Does anybody know a way to use named pipe of Windows in Ocaml ?
>
> Thank you in advance for your answer !
>
> Ps : Sorry if it's the wrong mailing list to ask, it's the first time I
> use one.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dave Scott
>
>