Okay, thanks, that does make sense. I'm curious now as to what the use case
is for a .mllib file that just defines an internal library. It doesn't seem
to be buying me anything if I don't want to compile the library separately
and use it in a different project.

martin

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com
> wrote:

> The compiler allows to store C compilation flags in library archives,
> but not OCaml-level flags, and in any case that would be a dubious
> idea as hardcoding the path to the ocamlfind packages on your system
> would make the (bytecode) archive libraries less portable.
>
> You can easily define the packages of the final executable in several
> steps, one per plugin:
>
>   <plugin1/**> or <main.*>: package(foo)
>   ...
>   <plugin2/**> or <main.*>: package(bar)
>
> Finally, you could also distribute each of your plugin as a separate
> ocamlfind package (allowing to combine both the link to the archive(s)
> and information about ocamlfind dependencies in a single place, the
> package's META file), but that requires re-installing a package for
> its changes to be visible from the main program -- so it is probably
> more useful for libraries that are less tightly coupled.
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Gabriel Scherer
> > <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I don't (yet) need dynamic linking; my current main aim with the
> .mllib
> >> > setup is to specify the package dependencies for each plugin in its >
> own
> >> > section of the _tags file, and not have a long list of every plugin's
> >> > dependencies in the main module.
> >>
> >> Well, that doesn't quite work: you need to have the ocamlfind packages
> >> passed to the command linking the final executable.
> >>
> >> I suppose changing
> >>   <**/puz.*>: ...
> >> to
> >>   <**/puz.*> or <file.*>: ...
> >> could work, as this line seems to pass all the libraries flags.
> >
> >
> > Isn't there any way with a .cmxa to compile the dependencies into a
> library
> > and then just have the library as a link-time dependency for the main
> > project? I can imagine things getting pretty messy once I have several
> > plugins and have to concatenate all their package deps into the file.*
> tags
> > line.
> >
> > martin
>