On Tuesday 14 October 2008, David Allsopp wrote: > Kuba Ober wrote: > > I've looked briefly at what it'd take to have OCaml > > fully working natively (with mingw/VS), without any Cygwin > > needed for compilation. > > Can I ask what the motivation is for this (out of interest, not criticism)? > It only takes a matter of minutes to install Cygwin and it can be > completely ignored once OCaml is compiled (I don't even have Cygwin in my > PATH).
The motivation is that I'm allergic to Cygwin. And you're not quite right that Cygwin is not needed later on: it is if you need to generate native code, or link with native code. Cheers, Kuba _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
