Unfortunately, ocamlbuild requires a unix-like environment, with a few
utilities in the path: bash, mkdir...
The installer only provides the very basics. It does not provide a unix
environment on windows, only the ocaml binaries, flexlink, and
ocamlfind. If you want to go further, e.g. use ocamlbuild, or benefit
from native compilation, you need to install a development environment,
such as cygwin, or msys. Currently, because of bug 5465, cygwin is the
recommended way.
I've successfully used ocamlbuild under cygwin and msys, and it works
fine.
Cheers,
jonathan
On Wed 28 Mar 2012 04:55:25 PM CEST, Kakadu wrote:
Hello!
Can you test ocamlbuild on windows? On my vertual machine with XP it
can't create _build directory and says
C:\prog\1>ocamlbuild main.byte
mkdir "C:\prog\1\_build"
bash: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
bash: mkdir: command not found
Failure: Error during command `mkdir "C:\prog\1\_build"'.
Exit code 127.
Best wishes,
Kakadu
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jonathan Protzenko
<jonathan.protze...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I've spent the past few days improving the OCaml installer for windows. This
should solve all issues that have been mentioned previously. This in
preparation for the upcoming 4.0 release ; therefore, the "beta installer"
below will install a fairly recent trunk version of OCaml.
http://yquem.inria.fr/~protzenk/caml-installer/ocaml-4.01.0+dev0-i686-mingw64.exe
Changelog:
- The installer packages a working and well-configured findlib, out of the
box. This means you can open up cmd.exe, type ocaml, then type #use
"topfind";; in the top-level.
- The installer no longer blasts the PATH variable if it is too long.
Moreover, it is now able to deal with PATHs that are up to 8192 bytes long.
- The installer is now able to deal with multi-user privileges: in
particular, you can use this installer on a limited account: OCaml will
properly install into your local "Application Data" folder if you don't have
administrator rights on your machine. This should be particularly useful for
school computers that run Windows.
- Various fixes: better cleanups on exit, minor fixes for OCamlWinPlus,
properly warn the user if it was unable to download ActiveTCL from the
internet.
- The installer packages a newer version of flexlink, so you shouldn't have
any more issues with gcc not accepting the -mno-cygwin option. However, the
new, official toolchain uses the mingw64 32-bit compilers. This means
flexlink will look for a i686-w64-mingw32-gcc in your path whenever you try
to do native compilation. The official, recommended way to work is to
install cygwin and its mingw64 packages. While in theory it should be
possible to work within a MSys environment, some issues [1] currently
prevent you from doing so.
[1] http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5465
Please let me know if anything doesn't work as expected. This will be the
official installer for the 4.0 release.
Cheers,
jonathan
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