I've understanded problem. My bash was misconfigured.
Best wishes, Kakadu P.S. Btw, If I install OCaml to Program Files and call `ocaml setup.ml -someoption` in cmd everything fails because ocamlbuild is not found (space in the path). On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protze...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, ocamlbuild requires a unix-like environment, with a few > utilities in the path: bash, mkdir... > > 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 -- 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
