Yep, metapackage worked like a charm! Thanks, I think I've gotten too used
to just searching for the packages marked -dev when I run into compilation
issues.

martin

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016, Martin DeMello wrote:
> > Oh, it's just a matter of installing packages one by one until things
> > compile :) More tedious than anything else; I just didn't want to go
> > through the process if someone had already. e.g. this is how I started
> off
> >
> > $ wajig install mingw-w64-x86-64-dev
> > $ wajig install mingw-w64-i686-dev
> > $ opam install ocaml-windows
> >
> > ### stderr ###
> > # + x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --version
> > # sh: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc: command not found
> >
> > I missed that there was a metapackage though; I'll give that a try.
>
> These are the packages for the headers and libraries that are required
> to get linking against Windows libraries, nothing more. In particular
> this doesn't provide a binutils nor a GCC. The metapackage should
> therefore solve your (current) issue.
>
> --
> Adrien Nader
>