Re: [Caml-list] Thoughts on targeting windows

[Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>]

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Speaking of which, are there any updates on the Windows situation with
regard to opam and Core? Specifically with regard to Core, I find it odd
that Ocaml's most popular (and well-written) book doesn't support the most
popular OS in the world.

-Yotam


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:16 AM, John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> William wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we are considering using OCaml for a rather large project, the bulk of
>> which will be networking and encryption. OCaml seems to meet our needs
>> with one exception:
>> we'd like to target windows (as well as linux & mac) and we got the
>> impression that this would be complicated -- we gathered that neither
>> jane street's Core nor OPAM are windows compatible.
>>
>> Would still recommend using OCaml? Are there workarounds, or other
>> libraries that would replace Core?
>>
>
> Here is the Windows installer:
>
> http://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/
>
> This also installs 'ocamlfind', which means that you can download source
> packages for libraries you're interested in, compile them, install them and
> use them relatively easily. Not as convenient as OPAM, of course.
>
> Here is a library for cryptography:
>
> https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/cryptokit/
>
> Here is a library for concurrency which runs on Windows:
>
> http://ocsigen.org/lwt/
>
> Here is a different Standard Library replacement/augmentation:
>
> https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included
>
> (The software I build for Windows, whilst complex in terms of what it
> does, is just a single statically linked executable which reads a file,
> processes it and writes a file, so I can't tell you anything about
> networking under Windows.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> John Whitington
> Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd
> http://www.coherentpdf.com/
>
>
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