Re: [Caml-list] Compiling Cryptokit on Windows
Le 06/02/2012 18:09, Romain Bardou a écrit : 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, Hi list, First of all, thanks to Gerd, David and Adrien for their answers. I was eventually able to take the time to tackle this problem again and my program compiles and runs just fine on Windows now, with Cryptokit 1.5. I had to: - reinstall OCaml in a directory without any space in it (otherwise Cryptokit would not configure without a hack, and would not compile even with the hack); - modify cryptokit/setup.data, there was a reference to Program Files, but I don't think it was actually used so this step might not be useful; - move the source of Cryptokit to a directory without any space in it (otherwise it would not install); - compile and install findlib. Then Cryptokit would compile and install. I was then able to link with it. I also tried cross-compiling but I failed, because (I think) mingw32-ocamlmklib produces a .dll (which makes sense) but Cryptokit believes it is in an environment where DLL are .so files. With more work I'm pretty sure it could be done but maybe not without modifying the compilation process of Cryptokit. Maybe it's just a matter of changing one parameter somewhere. To sum up, here are some general ideas that would improve the OCaml developing environment when Win32 is involved. 1) In OASIS: fix the handling of paths with spaces in them. 2) In the OCaml binary installer: install Findlib by default. After all, it installs emacs, but emacs is much less mandatory for OCaml programming than Findlib. 3) In Debian: provide a findlib package which could be used for cross-compiling with mingw32. It would be configured to use the cross-compiled mingw32 OCaml libraries in /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/ocaml. Maybe it could simply install a shell script which would call the existing Linux ocamlfind, but using a different configuration file by default. 4) In Debian also: provide Ocamlbuild with the mingw32 cross-compilation tools for OCaml. For instance, /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ocamlbuild. This Ocamlbuild would be configured to use the /usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-ocaml* executables by default, and to believe it runs in a Windows environment (so as to handle ocamlmklib and its output .dll file correctly). 5) In OASIS: do something to help with cross-compilation. For instance, add a -build-cross-mingw32 option to setup.ml or something. If 3) and 4) are available, it would be easy to implement. Else, instead of looking for ocamlc in the path, look for i686-w64-mingw32-ocamlc. I don't know whether this name is Debian-only though. And other tweaks would be necessary so that Ocamlbuild is happy. Regarding 3, 4, and 5, maybe I'm doing it wrong though. I'm not very familiar with cross-compiling. Cheers, -- Romain -- 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
[Caml-list] Compiling Cryptokit on Windows
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 -- 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
Re: [Caml-list] Compiling Cryptokit on Windows
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. This URL points to an archived web page, starting with This is the archived Findlib page. The new homepage can be found here!, plus a link to more recent information. Maybe this can be overlooked. The new link is http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html. Findlib is fully supported on Win32. 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. I'd call this a self-made trap. I'd never install Unixish software into a path with spaces. (I know Windows people think differently about that, but that's how it is.) 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 it was renamed to libocamlrun.a. But this is wrong for Win32 anyway, because the suffix should be .lib. I think I'll try cross-compiling now, or maybe editing setup.ml to put quotes around the command. Yes, it's not a pleasure to build Ocaml software on Windows. Gerd Cheers, -- Romain Bardou -- 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 -- Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germanyg...@gerd-stolpmann.de Creator of GODI and camlcity.org. Contact details:http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html Company homepage: http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de *** Searching for new projects! Need consulting for system *** programming in Ocaml? Gerd Stolpmann can help you. -- 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
RE: [Caml-list] Compiling Cryptokit on Windows
Romain Bardou wrote: 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. findlib is perfectly ported, and has been for years (see Gerd's email) - you simply need to compile it. All that's required is a recent Cygwin with the make, mingw64-i686-gcc-core and m4 packages (patch is a good idea as well). Assuming a working OCaml environment (OCAMLLIB set with a correct *Windows* PATH etc). For findlib 1.2.7, you need to patch the configure script - find the line camlp4_dir=`camlp4 -where` and change it camlp4_dir=`camlp4 -where | tr -d '\015'` or you'll get a corrupt META file for camlp4. It's built using ./configure make all opt install To compile Cryptokit with ZLIB support requires a patch (happy to send it - it's because of a limitation in OASIS - at least at the time I built it) but otherwise: ocaml setup.ml -configure ocaml setup.ml -build ocaml setup.ml -install While it's far from ideal, life is *much* easier on Windows with a compiler (i.e. building from sources). It's also a really good idea *not* to use spaces in anything (I use C:\Dev - although amusing that's had an issue with a buggy flexlink trying to write /dev/null!). Write your own software to handle spaces correctly, but don't expect Unix-only guys to think that way ;o) With my last refresh of OCaml to 3.12.2, I produced fully automated scripts for Windows compilation - at some point, I'll try to chuck them up somewhere in case they're of use to others (but the recent work with GODI on Windows is much more promising than what I was doing...). If you're feeling brave, I'm happy to send the scripts and patches off-list (OCaml with findlib, extlib, calendar, pcre, csv, pgocaml, zlib, camlzip, openssl, cryptokit, ocamlnet, json-wheel/static, spidermonkey+spidercaml, ocamlsha and ocamldap) 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
