RE: [Caml-list] C libs from Ocaml libs

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Hello Viktor,

I think that some libraries are missing in the link phase.

 

When a x.cmxa is generated, a x.lib is also generated. You need to pass it to the linker when you are generating a c executable or dll, even if you use the .cmxas in your output-obj, because all the relevant code is not just there.

 

I am appending the makefile of some internal code that generated a C Win32 dll.

 

Hope this helps.

 

JAVA_INC=$(JNIINCLUDES)

DIRS=-w y -w p -I +camljava -I +gsl -I +schedule -I +ocamlDM -I ../common/        

LIBS=rschedule.cmxa ocamlDMManager.cmxa jni_init.cmxa common.cmxa 

all: Engine.dll

 

install: all

            cp Engine.dll ../../bin

 

# supposes that the linker has access to the j2sdk lib

# rabih /libpath:"d:/appli/j2sdk1.4.1_05/lib" 

Engine.dll: ocamllib.obj Engine.obj

            link /nologo /dll /out:Engine.dll \

            /libpath:$(OCAML_LIB) /libpath:$(OCAML_CAMLJAVA) /libpath:$(JDKHOME)/lib \

            /libpath:$(OCAML_LIB)/schedule /libpath:$(OCAML_LIB)/ocamlDM /libpath:$(OCAML_LIB)/gsl /NODEFAULTLIB:libc \

            jvm.lib jni.lib  rschedule.lib ocamlDMManager.lib \

            Engine.obj  ocamllib.obj \

            libasmrun.lib libcamljni.lib

 

Engine.obj: Engine.h Engine.c

            cl /c $(JAVA_INC) -I$(OCAML_LIB) Engine.c

 

 

%.cmx: %.mf

            ocamlopt $(DIRS) -c -dtypes $<

 

 

ocamllib.obj:ocaml _Engine.cmx

            ocamlopt -dtypes $(DIRS) -output-obj -o ocamllib.obj  $(LIBS) $^

 

depend:

            echo -n > .depend

            ocamldep $(DIRS) ocaml_Engine.mf >.depend

 

clean:

            rm -f *.obj

            rm -f *.dll

            rm -f *.lib

            rm -f *.exp

            rm -f *.cm*

            rm -f *.h

            rm -f *~

 

include .depend

include ../Makefile.config

 

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De : caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr [mailto:caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr] De la part de viktor tron
Envoyé : mercredi 21 novembre 2007 19:35
À : Caml Mailing List
Objet : Re: [Caml-list] C libs from Ocaml libs

 

 

On 21/11/2007, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr > wrote:

viktor tron wrote:
> This is super! how is this on MacOS, I recall one of your comment earlier (on this list?)
> that it doesn't work or something.

Everything should work fine under Mac OS X x86. For PowerPC, I believe 
that "ocamlc -output-obj -o XXX.so" should be ok but that "ocamlopt
-output-obj -o XXX.so" does not work.

> well, I tried.
> ar -rs foo_caml.o foo_stub.o
> gcc -o foo_test.native foo_test.c -L. -lchainfreq_native -L/sw/lib/ocaml 

What is the name of the library you want to produce?


sorry, let me be very explicit then:

0) 
I believed that the following 
creates the c object containing: 
(a) main ocaml implementation of foo (b) export API (c) C binding to API (d) ocaml startup code 

$ ocamlopt -output-obj -o foo_caml.o foo.cmxa foo_stub.c foo_export.ml

now I create a lib

$ ar rs libfoo.a foo_caml.o

and happy ever after. Nope.
No matter how I link it with a main c test, I get undefined symbols for startup code 

$ gcc -o foo_test foo_test.c -L. -lfoo -lasmrun

In fact, the following variants don't work:

1) 
$ ocamlopt -output-obj -o foo_caml.o foo.cmxa foo_stub.c foo_export.ml
$ ar -rs libfoo.a /sw/lib/ocaml/libasmrun.a foo_caml.o 
$ gcc -o foo_test foo_test.c -L. -lfoo

2)
$ ocamlopt -output-obj -o foo_caml.o foo.cmxa foo_stub.c foo_export.ml
$ cp /sw/lib/ocaml/libasmrun.a libfoo.a 
$ ar -rs libfoo.a foo_caml.o 
$ gcc -o foo_test foo_test.c -L. -lfoo 

so it seems I have to compile foo_stub.o separately...

but even if I do:

3)
$ ocamlopt -output-obj -o foo_caml.o foo.cmxa foo_stub.c foo_export.ml
$ ocamlopt foo_stub.c
$ ar -rs libfoo.a foo_caml.o foo_stub.o 
$ gcc -o foo_test foo_test.c -L. -lfoo -L/sw/lib/ocaml -lasmrun

4)
$ ocamlopt -output-obj -o foo_caml.o foo.cmxa foo_stub.c foo_export.ml
$ ocamlopt foo_stub.c
$ ar -rs libfoo.a /sw/lib/ocaml/libasmrun.a foo_caml.o 
$ gcc -o foo_test foo_test.c -L. -lfoo

both fail, the only thing that works is when
(a) I compile stub and caml objects separately AND 
(b) use copy to bootstrap the runtime

$ ocamlopt -output-obj -o foo_caml.o foo.cmxa foo_stub.c foo_export.ml
$ ocamlopt foo_stub.c
$ cp /sw/lib/ocaml/libasmrun.a libfoo.a 
$ ar -rs libfoo.a foo_caml.o foo_stub.o
$ gcc -o foo_test foo_test.c -L. -lfoo

In fact ocamlopt does pretty enigmatic things in the background and ar is an entire mystery with this 
copy thing. 
If anyone can make me understand the above, I'd be forever grateful.

thanks
Viktor

 

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