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Date: | 2008-10-15 (05:58) |
From: | Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Road to native windows OCaml... |
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:38 AM, 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. No, if you use MSVC-build Ocaml it's not needed at all. - Dmitry Bely