Hi Viet,

Probably you should use `-package compiler-libs.common` instead of
`-package lexer` (and if you do this you should not need to explicitly
pass the path to the compiler-libs directory with `-I`).

Hope it helps!

Best wishes,
Nicolás
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:48 PM Viet Le <vietlq85@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all, I’m trying to revive and modernise the project iocamljs by Andrew Ray. Here’s my fork branch: https://github.com/vietlq/iocamljs/tree/scratch/modernise-build
>
> I was able to compile initially but somehow it stopped compiling. The issue is ocamlfind can’t find lexer in default folder compiler-libs. I’m using macos Mojavee and OCaml 4.06.1.
>
> The steps to reproduce:
>
> git clone https://github.com/vietlq/iocamljs.git
> cd iocamljs
> git fetch --all
> git checkout scratch/modernise-build
>
> make clean full
>
> The error logs:
>
> rm -f *.cmis.js
> rm -f *.cm[ioa] iocaml_full.byte iocaml.byte iocaml.js
> rm -fr *~
> ocamlfind ocamlc -c exec.mli
> ocamlfind ocamlc -package lexer -package js_of_ocaml -package js_of_ocaml-ppx \
> -package str,dynlink,js_of_ocaml,js_of_ocaml.compiler,js_of_ocaml.toplevel \
> -I /Users/vietlq/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs \
> exec.ml
> ocamlfind: Package `lexer' not found
> make: *** [exec.cmo] Error 2
>
> I actually have lexer files by default:
>
> $ ls -ltra $HOME/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/*lexer*
>
> $HOME/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/lexer.cmi
> $HOME/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/lexer.cmt
> $HOME/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/lexer.cmti
> $HOME/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/lexer.mli
> $HOME/.opam/4.06.1/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs/lexer.cmx
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Viet