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From: whitequark <whitequark@whitequark.org>
To: "Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] [ANN] opam-cross-windows
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:56:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d910e5a64c1031eed49fbdfb09b39246@whitequark.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F7D3B1B3C4B894D824F5B822E3E5A172CEA7748@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 2016-03-15 11:53, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
> Dear Whitequark,
> 
>> Since Cygwin is striving to present a Unix-like environment, those
>> assumptions would not hold. So I don't think opam-cross-windows will 
>> work
>> on Cygwin, sorry.
> 
>> Note that opam-cross-windows uses a toolchain that targets plain Win32 
>> API
>> without using any kind of POSIX emulation such as MSYS or Cygwin.
> 
> I talked about cross compiling for MinGW under cygwin. This should be
> fairly similar to cross compiling for MinGW under Unix. The Ocaml
> compiler created by my scripts runs on plain windows (without cygwin
> installed) and also creates executables for such systems. I use cygwin
> just as a build environment.
> 
> Ideally I would like to have an opam running on plain windows, but I
> think an Opam running on cygwin but creating plain windows tools might
> be a good compromise between usability and maintainability.

Ah. Yeah, that should just work. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael
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whitequark

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-13  9:02 whitequark
2016-03-14 19:55 ` Martin DeMello
2016-03-14 20:14   ` Adrien Nader
2016-03-14 20:26     ` Martin DeMello
2016-03-14 20:39       ` Adrien Nader
2016-03-14 21:10         ` Martin DeMello
2016-03-15  8:37       ` whitequark
2016-03-15  8:26 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2016-03-15  8:36   ` whitequark
2016-03-15  8:53     ` Soegtrop, Michael
2016-03-15  8:56       ` whitequark [this message]
2016-03-15 11:29         ` Soegtrop, Michael
2016-03-16 14:27       ` Andreas Hauptmann
2016-03-15  9:18     ` Adrien Nader
2016-03-15  9:12   ` David Allsopp
2016-05-20 18:38 ` Boutillier, Pierre
2016-05-20 18:45   ` whitequark
2016-05-23  8:24     ` Soegtrop, Michael
2016-05-24  6:57       ` whitequark
2016-05-24 12:35         ` Adrien Nader
2016-05-23  9:53   ` Mauricio Fernández

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