]> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I'm using the Xstrp4 syntax extension to include an external > file "data.txt" inside a "foobar.ml" file.  I'm also using > ocamlbuild to build the project.  How do I tell ocamlbuild > that data.txt should be also be copied to the _build directory > for building?  Ocamlbuild by default has no way of knowing that > foobar.ml depends on data.txt.  (I am presently using an absolute > path to get around this, which is not very portable). > I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this, but you can add the dependency in your myocamlbuild.ml file. Add something along the lines of this: --- let xstrp4_includes = "data.txt" ... | After_rules -> ... dep ["compile"; "the_xstrp4_tag"] xstrp4_includes; --- I use this to support external includes with camlidl + ocamlbuild. Hope this helps, Hez -- Hezekiah M. Carty Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science