Bikal Gurung wrote: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.
> 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?
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