Hi, As you are probably aware, the upcoming 3.11 release includes Alain Frisch's native dynlink patches. AFAIK, you cannot directly dynlink a cmxa or cmx file like you would do in bytecode with cma or cmo files. Beforehand, a native code binary must be made into a plugin via ocamlopt's -shared option. The suggested convention [1] is to give these plugins a cmxs extension:
ocamlopt -shared -linkall -o foobar.cmxs foobar.cmxa These native code plugins are a prerequisite if one intends to run Ocsigen in native mode. Therefore, the life of Ocsigen users would be greatly simplified if library writers and packagers (GODI, Debian, Fedora, etc) would add this little extra step of generating cmxs for each cmxa. This request only makes sense for 3.11, of course. Complementary, META files should also include extra directives for plugins. For example: archive(byte) = "foobar.cma" archive(native) = "foobar.cmxa" archive(plugin,byte) = "foobar.cma" archive(plugin,native) = "foobar.cmxs" This request can of course become an OSR. My question is if the herein contained instructions will still be valid verbatim for 3.11 final. Will they? Also, please check the Ocsigen Wiki for more info on this subject [2]. Best regards, Dario Teixeira [1] http://alain.frisch.fr/natdynlink.html [2] http://www.ocsigen.org/trac/wiki/NativeCodeVersion _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
