Hi list,
There has been some discussion during the last few months were some
argued that there was not enough Windows users to test libraries. Well
it happens that I need to compile Cryptokit for Windows. Here are my
first results, which failed miserably. I'm using OCaml 3.12.
1) With Cryptokit 1.5.
INSTALL.txt states that I need findlib. I installed OCaml from:
http://protz.github.com/ocaml-installer/
And it seems that ocamlfind is not installed by this tool. After more
search I read here:
http://www.camlcity.org/archive/programming/findlib.html
that "Volunteers are still wanted who port findlib to Windows and
Macintosh."
So I guess that every OASIS project needs findlib, but findlib does not
work on Windows, so all OASIS projects will not be usable on Windows? I
thought on the contrary that OASIS was a step towards unification?
I tried anyway without findlib, running:
ocaml setup.ml -configure
I get this error: "'c:\Program' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande
interne" (i.e. "unrecognized internal command"). The command which is
supposed to be run is:
c:\Program Files\OCaml\bin\ocamlc.opt.EXE -config > somefile.txt
It just misses quotes, which seems kind of silly.
2) With Cryptokit 1.3.
So I gave up and tried an older version whose INSTALL file explains how
to install on Windows.
I checked variables in Makefile.win and ran:
make -f Makefile.win
Now the error I get is that gcc cannot find "C:\Program
Files\OCaml\lib/ocamlrun.a", which actually does not exist, so this is
not a surprise. This file "ocamlrun.a" does not exist either on my
Debian computer, so I'm a little surprised here.
I think I'll try cross-compiling now, or maybe editing "setup.ml" to put
quotes around the command.
Cheers,
--
Romain Bardou
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