Hi there, I'm thinking of writing some programs in OCaml to assist a custom build infrastructure (currently 95% Tcl, 5% external Lua programs) that we use at work. Since we build on Windows, Mac, and Linux I have to make sure that whatever I end up writing works in all three. I haven't written much OCaml in my life, and the little that I did was probably five years ago, but any tools I write will have to be usable for a while. So I tried compiling OCaml 3.12.0+beta1 in Cygwin 1.7.5 -- the information I found about it seemed to imply that it should work. I put flexdll in the PATH and I was able to use the configure script and "make world.opt" with only a single problem: there were lots of linker errors when it came to building tools/objinfo_helper.exe, symbols like _lbasename, _sch_istable, and _objalloc_free could not be found. [I'd paste the full error but I forgot to email it to my private address today and the machine is in corporate lockdown mode, so I can't access it right now, but I can obtain it tomorrow at work if anybody would like to see the full message.] The way to fix it, for me anyway, was to modify the definition of LIBBFD_LINK in config/Makefile (which started out as "-lbfd -ldl") to append to it "-lintl -lz /usr/lib/libiberty.a"; and after that everything worked. I don't know if that constitutes a problem with the configure script or just something about how my Cygwin is installed, but I wanted to mention it somewhere in case it was a bug.
In addition to that, I have a question: is bytecode compatible across operating systems and/or CPU architectures? In other words, if I compile to bytecode on Linux/x86, can I run that using ocamlrun on Windows/x86 or Linux/amd64? Thanks, -- Taylor C. Venable http://metasyntax.net/ _______________________________________________ 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
