ocamlnat indeed builds with 4.03 but is not built by default On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Gabriel Scherer 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 > 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > -- Jeremie