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.

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Adrien Nader