Ok. Does anybody know how to use OCamlMakefile to have it do this? The
commands already call ocamlfind before ocamlc;

ocamlfind ocamlc ...

is there before every compile command. Does ocamlfind only look in ~/.opam?
All my dependencies are local...

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:00 PM, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
wrote:

> Kenneth Adam Miller wrote:
> > I have a library that I'm building against.
>
> An OCaml library, or a C library? (it's unclear from what you say later)
>
> > I only consume an interface from
> > 2 specific directories; there are no other usages throughout my code. I
> would
> > like to be able to link against the library, and have the compiler admit
> my
> > code so long as it uses the interfaces of the other libraries correctly.
> > Instead, I'm having to recursively specify all the dependencies of the
> library
> > I consume!
> >
> > I specify the location of my library with -ccopt -L location/to/it and
> then
>
> -ccopt is used with C libraries - are you sure you're trying to do the
> correct thing?
>
> > afterward, have the cma or the cmxa before I specify my source that is
> being compiled.
> >
> > Should I statically link? What do I do to avoid the dependency hell?
>
> You are (probably) statically linking - it sounds like you're mixing
> terminology. If you use an OCaml library foo.cmxa which depends on bar.cmxa
> then you do have to specify bar.cmxa before linking foo.cmxa - that's not
> dependency hell, it's just linking! There is a simple solution to this:
> ocamlfind. It manages all of the linking instructions for you simply by
> specifying the package that you need to be available.
>
>
> David
>
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