From: Xavier Leroy <xavier@Theory.Stanford.EDU>
Message-Id: <9305262244.AA00983@Tamuz.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: Caml and PCs
To: popineau@ese-metz.fr
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 15:44:50 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <9305261534.AA03706@prunel.ese-metz.fr> from "popineau@ese-metz.fr" at May 26, 93 05:34:49 pm
> Does it exists a version of Caml-light that can run in
> a Dos box of Windows 3.1 ?
The 8086 version should work fine. But it's severely limited in
memory, and rather slow.
In theory, all you need to run the 386 version is a VCPI-compliant
memory manager. Windows only provide DPMI memory management. So, if you
somehow manage to run Windows under a VCPI memory manager, Caml Light
should run fine. I've heard that the latest release of QEMM might be
able to do that, but that's a wild guess.
> Or better, maybe there is a Windows(3.1, NT) version
> of caml being worked on ?
None that I know of. If anyone has some practical experience with
porting Unix programs to 32-bit Windows applications, I'd like to hear
about it (how hard is it, which compiler to use, etc.).
- Xavier Leroy