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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>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Static linking via Ctypes?

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.