Original bug ID: 1436
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: not a bug
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

The -cclib option on 3.06 is passed to the compiler, not the linker.
I'm not sure exactly when this changed because I went from 3.01 to
3.06.

Suggested fix: If you still want to use cl to link the final
exectuable (which is fine), add "/link" to the command line before
adding the cclib strings in asmlink.ml. The problem is it has to be
absolutely last because msvc just passes the rest of the command line
to link.exe, I believe.

I guess an alternate fix is to change the docs on --clib, but that's
lame since the real fix is easy.

The temporary workaround is for users to add "/link" in front of their
-cclib strings.

Chris

PS. Relatively Minor: www.ocaml.org has not been updated with the news since
4/02...it'd be good if the updates to caml.inria.fr were automagically
reflected up to www.ocaml.org

PPS. Really Minor: ocaml.org (no www.) goes to "Virtual Building 8"
at INRIA. :) It should probably go to the same page as www.ocaml.org.