>     >> The problem is that every package has a different build system,
>     >> configuration system (Makefile targets), installation
>     >> directories, etc. Of course it is "easy" to package them : just
>     >> issue the right (Makefile or whatever) commands, set the right
>     >> Makefile variables, etc. The problem is that you have to spend
>     >> some time figuring out these commands. Ideally, it should be as
>     >> simple as :
>     >>
>     >> perl Makefile.Pl or python ./setup.py build
>     >>
>     >> One more point is that ocaml is multi-platform : so this build
>     >> system should be able to run on unix, Windows, MacOS. Packages
>     >> that wraps C libraries will probably be platform-specific but
>     >> it think it would be nice if pure ocaml programs could be built
>     >> the same way on every platform supported by ocaml.
>
>     NC> Will I need to install wonderful programming langages such as
>     NC> perl or python on my Windows box ? Without any flames, why are
>     NC> always unix users wants to make things so complicated ? :) I
>     NC> will much more prefer something like :
>
> Have you tried OCamlMakefile?  I gotta say -- I do a lot of weird
> stuff with Caml (preprocessing with a custom-written #define
> processor, amongst other weird stuff), and it's worked more-or-less
> like a charm.
>
> Indeed, I'd like to encourage others to use this puppy.  It *works*.
>
> A combination of OCamlMakefile, and "findlib" (Thanks, Gerd!!!!)
> really, really, really (did I mention really?) works to eliminate
> almost all my building and packaging hassles.
>
> I suspect that some sort of Makefile-generating facility, written in
> Caml (of course), combined with OcamlMakefile, and producing findlib
> modules, would be *near-ideal*.

No, I haven't used OCamlMakefile ( is is working with NMAKE ? )
And no, I don't think using findlib would be *near-ideal* since it isn't
ported on all platforms ( Windows at least, what about MacOs ? ).

Nicolas Cannasse

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