Comment author: @gasche

I think this is a fine feature suggestion, but the implementation is a bit tedious because ocamlmklib currently implements its own bare-metal argument handling logic, sensibly simpler than the rest of the compiler. That means you cannot just call the compiler OCAMLPARAM-parsing function and be done with it; the best way to go is probably to reimplement the command-line argument parsing logic of ocamlmklib.

Would anyone be interested in proposing a patch to do this?

Comment author: @whitequark

What I did for now is implemented an OCAMLMKLIBPARAM (https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-android/blob/master/packages/ocaml-android32.4.02.3/files/patches/ocamlmklib.patch). But this is rather suboptimal.

Comment author: @whitequark

FWIW ocamlmklib's options are sufficiently different from ocamlc's that I'm not sure if it even makes sense to reuse Compenv.read_OCAMLPARAM; what I would do is to call Compenv.parse_args, and then manually reimplement the parameters relevant for ocamlmklib, of which there are very few.

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With the broad migration to dune this issue is much less relevant and I suspect it can be simply ignored until the need for ocamlmklib goes away.

That makes sense. Closing.