On Friday 21 November 2008 23:45:34 Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Does ocamlfind support any of this?  Since I'm now also
> > cross-compiling OCaml, I've certainly come to appreciate
> > findlib more than ever.
>
> Indeed it does.  The current version of Ocsigen already
> makes use of this feature.  However, because very few
> (none, actually, other than Ocsigen's) packages currently
> ship with cmxs files, an Ocsigen user who wants to play
> with native code is forced to manually generate them.
> (What impelled me to write the request was precisely
> having just gone through the process of producing the
> cmxs for a bunch of Ocamlnet and PXP libraries...)

This begs the question: what is the advantage of a .cmxa over a .cmxs, and 
what are the downsides of linking everything dynamically?

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