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
>