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From: Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>
To: Dan Benjamin <dbenjamin@janestreet.com>
Cc: David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>,
	Bruno Deferrari <utizoc@gmail.com>, O Caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Static linking via Ctypes?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:19:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAxsn=GfRQe1Xph32HVQxZUNu-8KH3YtV9jOZBjguU8-43Up_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACKEwpa4ypJQUHgsYzG1ftTCAjf5FX6rGsrok-UuDqNiRdif2Q@mail.gmail.com>

David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I did
>
> <https://github.com/dsheets/ocaml-unix-unistd/blob/master/lib/unix_unistd_stubs.c#L61>
>
> and
>
> <https://github.com/dsheets/ocaml-unix-unistd/blob/master/lib/ctypes/unix_unistd.ml#L32>
>
> to require a static link without stub generation in addition to
> ocamlmklib on the .ml and .o files.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not very portable (or sane).

On 25/03/2014, Dan Benjamin <dbenjamin@janestreet.com> wrote:
> That does work, thanks very much.  Are there plans to add anything
> similar to Ctypes?

Not exactly, since the stub generation support in the next ctypes
release resolves these issues in a different way.  In the current
release (0.2.3) setting up foreign calls and linking are both entirely
dynamic.  Stub generation will make it possible to link statically as
well.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-25 14:54 dbenjamin
2014-03-25 15:04 ` Bruno Deferrari
2014-03-25 15:11   ` Dan Benjamin
2014-03-25 15:24     ` David Sheets
2014-03-25 17:55       ` Dan Benjamin
2014-03-25 21:19         ` Jeremy Yallop [this message]
2014-03-25 21:37           ` Milan Stanojević
2014-03-25 23:14             ` Jeremy Yallop
2014-03-26 16:24               ` Travis Brady
2014-03-26 17:17                 ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-03-26 17:25               ` Milan Stanojević
2014-03-25 15:10 ` Daniel Bünzli

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