Romain Bardou wrote: > Le 30/03/2012 16:15, Jonathan Protzenko a écrit : > > Hi again, > > > > Following all the good suggestions in this thread, I've updated the > > installer. It now downloads and runs cygwin's setup.exe so as to > > provide a fully working environment for OCaml on windows after the > > installer completes. The cygwin installer runs in silent mode, that > > is, the progress window shows up, but there is no user prompt. > > Hello, > > I always heard that if you compile your program under the Cygwin > environment, then the application needs to be run under the Cygwin > environment as well; whereas if you use MinGW, you produce stand-alone > executables. Is that still the case?
You misheard :o) If you compile your programs using the Cygwin *port* of OCaml (so either using Cygwin's OCaml package or by compiling OCaml from sources using ./configure && make world opt install) then your executables will depend on Cygwin. The MinGW and MSVC ports don't use configure (at the moment) but instead use custom Makefiles - however, all four ports use the Cygwin *environment* (i.e. bash, make, findutils, etc.) to perform the build. For the MinGW ports, Cygwin's mingw64 *cross-compilers* are used. > I need to give stand-alone executables to my users; I cannot tell them to > install Cygwin as well. If your installer does not let me compile stand- > alone executables, it has no value to me. It does - the installer will install Cygwin's gcc-mingw64-core package. You can still run ocamlopt from a normal command prompt. David -- 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
