David Chemouil <David.Chemouil@enseeiht.fr> writes:

> 1. One thing that really bothers me is the obligation to put object
> files in the good order, when linking them.

ocamldep is your friend (included in the standard distribution). Have a
look at the following makefile to see how to use it:

http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/Makefile_ocaml-eng.html


Otherwise, there is also OCaml Make from Markus (i've never used it):

  http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl/ocaml_sources/intro.html


> 2. [...] So it must be possible to remove the '-thread' option, and
> have the compiler guess that the program is multithreaded when it sees
> 'threads.cm[x]a' on the command line.

I think this option is due to separate compilation. You may compile a
file in reentrant mode (aka multi-threaded) without doing the link phase
(with the threads.cm[x]a library).


Best regards,
david
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