Hi David,

Thank you for your response. I have installed the official windows port of
ocaml at http://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/ . However, it mentions
that MinGW/Msys is no longer supported. I rather use Mingw/Msys as well.

It seems ocamlbuild requires cygwin to work, has this been your experience
too? If I build the latest ocaml from trunk - 4.02dev+fp will ocaml and
other tools/utilities still work on pure MingWg/Msys environment?

With regards to ocaml libraries, have you tried the Jane Street packages?
Core, core_kernel ?

Bikal Gurung


On 24 June 2013 10:27, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:

> Bikal Gurung wrote:
> > I am looking to use ocaml to implement a project for my employer.
> However,
> > the environment is Windows OS. I am using cygwin and so far it seems to
> > work but curious on experiences others have on using ocaml on windows -
> > both as a development and deployment platform. Also has anyone tried
> using
> > opam on windows? Does it work?
>
> I've used the MinGW Windows port of OCaml for nearly a decade. Deployment
> of programs is the same as deploying anything else on Windows - deploying
> using executables built with ocamlopt is of course trivial as they have no
> dependencies beyond any libraries you choose to use.
>
> Partly because of how long I've used OCaml, I still build it from sources
> - but there are now several options including the packaged Windows
> installer, GODI/WODI, etc. Although Windows OCaml users are a minority,
> there are quite a few developers actively contributing (the recent 64-bit
> MinGW port was community-initiated, I think).
>
> Last time I looked, Windows support for opam appeared to be a todo list
> item, but I haven't looked in a while (laziness... I already have parallel
> build scripts of my own, so a package manager is lower down my priority
> list)
>
> HTH,
>
>
> David
>