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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Bytecode run on AIX - "unknown C primitive" error
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:07:08 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhldled.ckm.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A8556989A396A408C72088C69EDE5633EC26A23@KAIP-EXMSG01.lmsintl.com>

On 20-01-2010, Christoph Bauer <christoph.bauer@lmsintl.com> wrote:
> unfortunatly I haven't a solution for the bytecode stuff. I only use
> ocaml with native compiled code. This works very well.
>

I confirm that ocamlopt/AIX works well (thanks to Christoph). 

The best solution is maybe to understand why ocamlopt cannot be built ?

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall

> Christoph Bauer
>
>> From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr 
>> [mailto:caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Dawid Toton
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:32 PM
>> To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
>> Subject: [Caml-list] Bytecode run on AIX - "unknown C primitive" error
>> 
>> I have installed part of this OCaml port 
>> http://home.arcor.de/chr_bauer/ocaml-aix.html
>> on a computer running on AIX. It seems that everything built 
>> correctly except ocamlopt. So I have ocamlrun and standard 
>> library and this should be enough for bytecode to run.
>> 
>> I have to build the bytecode on a different machine (because 
>> it's difficult to do on AIX). I believe this shouldn't induce 
>> any problems.
>> 
>> Trivial bytecode executes correctly regardless where it is created.
>> 
>> I set LIBPATH to point to ocaml/stublibs and try running some 
>> bytecode uning Unix module. This results in:
>> Fatal error: unknown C primitive `unix_getsockopt_bool'
>> 
>> If I compile simple "let _ = Unix.sleep 1" on the target 
>> machine, I get bytecode that causes ocamlrun to crash with:
>> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>> 
>> Does anybody have an idea for workaround? Some understanding 
>> what's going on?
>> 
>> I'm using AIX 5.3
>> 
>> Dawid
>> 
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Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-20 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-19 20:31 Dawid Toton
2010-01-20  9:20 ` [Caml-list] " Christoph Bauer
2010-01-20 10:07   ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]
2010-01-20 10:36     ` [Caml-list] " Christoph Bauer
2010-01-20 18:18   ` [Caml-list] " Dawid Toton
2010-01-22 11:24     ` Christoph Bauer
2010-01-27 15:10       ` [Caml-list] OCaml on AIX Dawid Toton
2010-04-19 14:56         ` Christoph Bauer

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