Re: [Caml-list] New version of the binary installer for Windows

[Kakadu <kakadu.hafanana@gmail.com>]

Hello!

Can you test ocamlbuild on windows? On my vertual machine with XP it
can't create _build directory and says

C:\prog\1>ocamlbuild main.byte
mkdir "C:\prog\1\_build"
bash: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
bash: mkdir: command not found
Failure: Error during command `mkdir "C:\prog\1\_build"'.
Exit code 127.

Best wishes,
Kakadu

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jonathan Protzenko
<jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've spent the past few days improving the OCaml installer for windows. This
> should solve all issues that have been mentioned previously. This in
> preparation for the upcoming 4.0 release ; therefore, the "beta installer"
> below will install a fairly recent trunk version of OCaml.
>
> http://yquem.inria.fr/~protzenk/caml-installer/ocaml-4.01.0+dev0-i686-mingw64.exe
>
> Changelog:
>
> - The installer packages a working and well-configured findlib, out of the
> box. This means you can open up cmd.exe, type ocaml, then type #use
> "topfind";; in the top-level.
> - The installer no longer blasts the PATH variable if it is too long.
> Moreover, it is now able to deal with PATHs that are up to 8192 bytes long.
> - The installer is now able to deal with multi-user privileges: in
> particular, you can use this installer on a limited account: OCaml will
> properly install into your local "Application Data" folder if you don't have
> administrator rights on your machine. This should be particularly useful for
> school computers that run Windows.
> - Various fixes: better cleanups on exit, minor fixes for OCamlWinPlus,
> properly warn the user if it was unable to download ActiveTCL from the
> internet.
> - The installer packages a newer version of flexlink, so you shouldn't have
> any more issues with gcc not accepting the -mno-cygwin option. However, the
> new, official toolchain uses the mingw64 32-bit compilers. This means
> flexlink will look for a i686-w64-mingw32-gcc in your path whenever you try
> to do native compilation. The official, recommended way to work is to
> install cygwin and its mingw64 packages. While in theory it should be
> possible to work within a MSys environment, some issues [1] currently
> prevent you from doing so.
>
> [1] http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5465
>
> Please let me know if anything doesn't work as expected. This will be the
> official installer for the 4.0 release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> jonathan