From: Chris Conway <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: What's the purpose of the static library?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:49:38 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080923T124233-7@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923101710.GA29133@annexia.org>
Richard Jones <rich <at> annexia.org> writes:
> <...>
> File: module.cmo ------------------------------
>
> Contains the bytecode of the implementation of Module.
>
> Created by: 'ocamlc -c module.ml'
>
> Used: When linking bytecode programs, or creating bytecode libraries
> (*.cma), or by the toplevel when you use #load, or by Dynlink.
>
> File: library.cma ------------------------------
>
> This is just a set of *.cmo files combined together.
>
> Created by: 'ocamlc -a'
>
> Used: Same as for module.cmo
Richard,
This is a wonderful answer! It should go onto the wiki or in the FAQ.
One nitpick...
.cma (and .cmxa) files should not be used for creating libraries
(as .cmo and .cmx files can (and should) be). I.e., don't like a
library into a library. Doing so will give a compiler error:
X.cma is not a compilation unit description.
Regards,
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 3:36 bill yan
2008-09-22 9:35 ` [Caml-list] " Stéphane Glondu
2008-09-23 9:09 ` bill yan
2008-09-23 10:17 ` Richard Jones
2008-09-23 11:42 ` Alain Frisch
2008-09-23 12:49 ` Chris Conway [this message]
2008-09-24 11:24 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-24 17:28 ` Richard Jones
2008-09-24 20:09 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-09-25 10:58 ` [Caml-list] " bill yan
2008-09-25 11:11 ` Alain Frisch
2008-10-08 3:20 ` bill yan
2008-10-08 3:29 ` bill yan
2008-09-23 10:24 ` Daniel Bünzli
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