On 28/03/2012, Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.me...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Protzenko > <jonathan.protze...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Unfortunately, ocamlbuild requires a unix-like environment, with a few >> utilities in the path: bash, mkdir... > > It looks like he's got a partially installed environment - as bash is there. > >> 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. > > How about bundling the installer with cygwin or msys? Beware of the > license issues however.
Or make ocamlbuild not depend on bash. Only depending on a compliant sh would already be quite nice but afaik, it should be possible to not depend on a shell at all with minimal efforts. Regards, Adrien Nader -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
