Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnat

[Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>]

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ocamlnat indeed builds with 4.03 but is not built by default

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thomas Réfis and Jérémie Dimino have been working on ocamlnat in trunk
> recently, and ocamlnat builds on either the "trunk" branch or, I believe,
> the 4.03 release. You should talk to them.
>
> Let me take this an opportunity to advertise the "runtop" target in the
> compiler distribution's Makefile, which runs a toplevel from an
> (uninstalled) build of the compiler distribution:
>
>   make runtop
>   make natruntop
>
> I added them during the 4.03+dev release cycle, but didn't mention it in
> the Changelog (they're not user-facing features) so most people keep doing
> weird incantations of (./byterun/ocamlrun ./ocaml -I nostdlib ...) instead.
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried to reactivate the ocamlnat tool that comes with OCaml but
>> isn't built (and even isn't buildable). This repo was tested against
>> 4.02.3:
>>
>> https://gitlab.camlcity.org/gerd/ocamlnat
>>
>> Since recently I'm quite interested in this, and would like to make it
>> fully working, including ocamlfind support. For my use case the
>> disadvantages of the ocamlnat approach (i.e. that it requires toolchain
>> support for dynlinking, and that the executable continuously grows) do
>> not matter - I really want it for interactive work, and not for
>> scripting.
>>
>> Gerd
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany    gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
>> My OCaml site:          http://www.camlcity.org
>> Contact details:        http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html
>> Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
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>>
>>
>


-- 
Jeremie

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