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Toplevel - loading dependencies
- Dawid Toton
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Date: | 2009-01-09 (14:23) |
From: | Dawid Toton <dawid.toton@u...> |
Subject: | Toplevel - loading dependencies |
Another problem with loading modules in the toplevel: I need to use the module A. So I write: #load "A.cmo" to get a messsage "Reference to undefined global B" So I prepend a line: #load B.cmo and get another "undefined global". Then it repeats prohibitively many times. This is resolving dependencies by hand, one by one. The solution would be to have a special version of cmo that knows locations of all other cmo's it depends on. In special cases I could use cma archives, but this is only applicable when there is well defined and stable set of modules I need. But in practice the modules I use in ocaml scripts are constantly evolving. It leads to having multiple cma aggregates and maintaining their building description. Again, lots of work. If I put everything into one big cma, then I have to recompile it every small change. It takes so long time, that it would make no sense to use the interpreter at all. Could I ask ocamlbuild to produce proper loading preamble for my scripts? What is the right solution? Dawid