From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q2SHaYMX014618 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:36:34 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgBANxLc0/RVde2kGdsb2JhbABFuGQIIgEBAQEJCQ0HFAQjggkBAQEEEgIsARsdAQMMBgULDS4hAQERAQUBHAYTCBqHaJ0yCowWgnGFIj+IdgEFC4l1hxIEjgKHX4sxgx09hAs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,662,1325458800"; d="scan'208";a="138128358" Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com ([209.85.215.182]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 28 Mar 2012 19:36:16 +0200 Received: by eaaf13 with SMTP id f13so548950eaa.27 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:36:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=EpdhqE1HmMj0bU+NrY1UgKno+vrDnmue2iRxwdVtJQ4=; b=XnocNRq6bEDGGx7QkPwtTiLxWmcnps6RqEkQnGcNXKLq+TPXNq4Nybd0NCMfXojbrY 3yqs6IOEB7mWcRY371IWcWfZ7aGH6pBhXqgvL3JU8tcb/Ak5iyBGqPrgfLjo4o7KcrO6 WMIJxGEQ9bxeIPvP9bGHlRhtPrU3SK6OWGhNVCoPZCvWQAR0TddqaSnyHplIIU/5fK6S UByuNBwEIzdXdbCfLCT2h03XvWdtOFycYbkOS0oMi6ztU2GVHPOGdkeMoWtMMD8CXRL9 bW206M2TInzlm/WIcsyG3PGHL0lLVaTp7wPE2GjaN+FySVKEjjjcGRWfsnf2KBRh/TS8 /cEw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.123.202 with SMTP id v50mr4119897eeh.95.1332956176488; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.19.138 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:36:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4F730303.8000802@gmail.com> <4F732BFE.104@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:36:16 +0200 Message-ID: From: Adrien To: Wojciech Meyer Cc: Jonathan Protzenko , Kakadu , caml-list@inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New version of the binary installer for Windows On 28/03/2012, Wojciech Meyer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Protzenko > wrote: >> Unfortunately, ocamlbuild requires a unix-like environment, with a few >> utilities in the path: bash, mkdir... > > It looks like he's got a partially installed environment - as bash is there. > >> The installer only provides the very basics. It does not provide a unix >> environment on windows, only the ocaml binaries, flexlink, and ocamlfind. >> If >> you want to go further, e.g. use ocamlbuild, or benefit from native >> compilation, you need to install a development environment, such as >> cygwin, >> or msys. Currently, because of bug 5465, cygwin is the recommended way. >> >> I've successfully used ocamlbuild under cygwin and msys, and it works >> fine. > > How about bundling the installer with cygwin or msys? Beware of the > license issues however. Or make ocamlbuild not depend on bash. Only depending on a compliant sh would already be quite nice but afaik, it should be possible to not depend on a shell at all with minimal efforts. Regards, Adrien Nader