RE: [Caml-list] flexdll circular dependency on ocamlc: Impossible to built ocaml for mingw without using some prebuilt binaries?

["Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com>]

Dear Alain,

> Dynlink follows a different model: dynlinked units are not tied to a specific
> main executable.  A myplugin.cmxs can be dynamically linked by any
> application that provides the required interfaces.

Can you explain what you mean by Dynlink (or point me to some documents)? I though we are talking about loading DLLs with LoadLibrary programmatically (rather than by the image loader). I am quite sure calling main executable functions from a DLL loaded this way does work. But I am not sure we are talking about this mechanism or something else.

> As for the dependency between OCaml and flexdll: the simplest approach is
> to consider flexdll as any other external tool required to build OCaml (do you
> recompile "gcc", "make", etc  from sources?).

The idea of open source is that you have the possibility to fix bugs yourself. This can be an important factor for maintainability. I am quite sure I can compile gcc from sources if I want to. Everything where I am not so sure where it comes from and how it is build I actually do build from sources. This includes things which are as nasty to build as GTK.

Best regards,

Michael

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