On 15 Sep 2015, at 12:46, Gabriel Scherer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Could you provide more information on what changes/fixes you need from upstream? By looking at the slides I see that you mention http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4034 http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6120
Are both equally important? Is it easy to workaround not having them, or a deal-breaker for your work? Which other upstream issues would you need solved? 4034 is complicated which is why it's sat unfixed - it doesn't need fixing for OPAM, I simply wrapped the Windows API call in OPAM directly to solve its use case. 6120 is critical for building dose3 directly (if you compile using lib-ext, it doesn't matter) but not critical, therefore. I was going to update its Mantis page with a note that I expect to finish the patch in October (and so hopefully get it into 4.03). The make compiler route of my Windows OPAM port already includes this patch. I'm not aware of any other OCaml fixes needed - I don't expect any, either, as OCaml of course works well on Windows already! David On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:31 PM, David Allsopp <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: As previously mentioned, I've been devoting a little time to porting the master branch of OPAM to work on native Windows (i.e. in a Command or PowerShell Prompt rather than in Cygwin). I had the chance to sync with a few people in Cambridge at the end of August, and as a result a few of us had a presentation/discussion at Microsoft Research Cambridge yesterday about the work I've done so far and what still needs doing. The (PDF) slides from my talk are available at http://1drv.ms/1QeD746 I refer in the slides to various things where Proof-of-Concept (PoC) work has been done, and I've now shared these on GitHub at https://github.com/dra27/opam-experiments I mention at the end that the port is not particularly exciting at this stage, as you can only get as far as a not terribly polished opam init. My plan is by mid-October to have opam config env working so that we have a very, very pre-alpha "release" which may be able to install some packages into the system switch only. Anyone is of course welcome to try building what's on the windows branch in the meantime, and I'm very happy to provide assistance/receive bug reports on the build process so far. There's documentation on the detailed requirements for the build environment in README.md (see https://github.com/dra27/opam/blob/windows/README.md#compiling-on-native-win dows) I have also shared my OneNote scribblings and notes on the port at http://1drv.ms/1QeDkV0 (opens in OneNote Online). Please be aware that this document contains paged-out portions of my brain, which is both a highly-disorganised place and also sometimes expresses opinions more strongly than are necessary! Continuing towards the OCaml/OPAM Windows Dream... David _______________________________________________ opam-devel mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel
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