Original bug ID: 1130
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Dmitry Bely
Version: 3.04
OS: Windows 2000
Submission from: d218.p9.col.ru (212.248.7.218)

I need to pass extra MSVC linking options to ocamlc -custom/ocamlopt (e.g. to
debug CamlIDL-generated C stubs and linked C libraries with MS Visual Studio).
Unfortunately the standard -ccopt way cannot help: MSVC requires the linking
options to be the very last in the command line. In my case:

cl /link /debug

So if I use, say

ocamlc -custom ... -ccopt /link -ccopt /debug

it will call cl as

• cl ... /link /debug

That is the syntax error for cl.

What I would propose to resolve this issue:

1. For MSVC-build Ocaml place all -ccopt contents to the very end of the command
   line (it's also OK for MSVC compiler options)
   (or)
2. Add new -linkopt (-ldopt?) option to ocamlc/ocamlopt which will append
   -linkopt contents to the end of the command line with "/link" prefix. For
   non-MSVC ocamlc/ocamlopt make it equivalent to -ccopt.