From: Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cygwin/mingw linking
Date: 17 Sep 2001 11:58:07 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <heu28d0w.fsf@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13e.167b5df.28d3ee88@aol.com>
CaptnJamesKirk@aol.com writes:
> I've got OCaml 3.02 succesfully installed, compiled, and working under
> Windows ME using the latest cygwin. I would like to be able to link my
> programs using mingw so the executable doesn't need cygwin1.dll. The docs
> mention using the -output-obj option to create an *.o object file that can be
> linked, but the manual talks about wrapping this with a C program, etc.,
> which is not what I want. I just want to manually link the object file(s)
> with whichever libraries are needed, using a separate mingw installation.
You cannot do this directly because Ocaml runtime and all its libraries are
also linked with cygwin1.dll if you use cygwin port.
> Can I do this?
It requires some work, but of course is possible. Some time ago I
experimented with combined cygwin/mingw port of Ocaml 3.01:
1. All development tools and byte-compiled ocaml executables are
cygwin-based (linked with cywin1.dll). You have all advantages of standard
cygwin build -- working debugger, profiler etc.
2. At the same time ocamlopt compiler (being the cygwin binary itself)
produces fully native Win32 code, using only standard MSVC runtime
(msvcrt.dll) -- just as "gcc -mno-cygwin" (i.e. mingw) does. If works much
faster (no UNIX emulation layer required) and allows to create commercial
applications without very expensive cygwin1.dll commercial license from Red
Hat.
Unfortunately, OCaml team thinks that supporting even two existing Win32 ports
(MSVC & cygwin) is too boring. So all this is unlikely to be included into
the distribution ...
Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-17 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-14 23:36 CaptnJamesKirk
2001-09-17 7:58 ` Dmitry Bely [this message]
2001-09-14 23:40 CaptnJamesKirk
2001-09-16 16:05 CaptnJamesKirk
2001-09-17 8:40 RE : " Dmitry Bely
2001-09-17 10:02 ` RE : " Lionel Fourquaux
2001-09-17 10:35 ` Einar Karttunen
2001-09-17 13:47 RE : RE : " Art Yerkes
2001-09-17 15:14 ` Dmitry Bely
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