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Date: | 2008-10-15 (12:36) |
From: | Kuba Ober <kuba@m...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: Road to native windows OCaml... |
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 14-10-2008, Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 October 2008, David Allsopp wrote: > >> Kuba Ober wrote: > >> > I've looked briefly at what it'd take to have OCaml > >> > fully working natively (with mingw/VS), without any Cygwin > >> > needed for compilation. > >> > >> Can I ask what the motivation is for this (out of interest, not > >> criticism)? It only takes a matter of minutes to install Cygwin and it > >> can be completely ignored once OCaml is compiled (I don't even have > >> Cygwin in my PATH). > > > > The motivation is that I'm allergic to Cygwin. And you're not quite right > > that Cygwin is not needed later on: it is if you need to generate native > > code, or link with native code. > > Not at all. Once compiled, ocaml doesn't use cygwin anymore. With maybe > the big exception of some little thing in ocambuild, that should be > fixed in ocaml 3.11 (something like needing "tput"). > > For example, if you download and install OCaml MSVC from > http://caml.inria.fr and you open a MS Visual Studio 2005 MSDOS shell, > you can perfectly compile a native application (well I have not done it, > but I will try tomorrow ;-) > > All you need is "cl", "ml" and "link" I think (all are MSVC tools). And you need masm too, right? You're right of course, for whatever reasons I was still thinking of OCaml built with Cygwin :) Cheers, Kuba