[Caml-list] Newbie question re ocamlopt on WindowsXP

[Caml-list] Newbie question re ocamlopt on WindowsXP

[Kurt Luoto]

I am a relative newcomer to Caml/Ocaml, as of this year.  I have written a
couple of small programs for my personal use.

Now I would like to compile a standalone version of the program using
ocamlopt.  However, whenever I attempt to compile a ".ml" file, I get a
message such as the following:

C:\Documents and Settings\Kurt\My Documents\Xyz\src>ocamlopt -c xyz.ml
'ml' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Assembler error, input left in file
C:\DOCUME~1\KURT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\camlasmd80d01.asm

Could someone kindly tell me what silly error I am making?

Regards,
Kurt Luoto


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Re: [Caml-list] Newbie question re ocamlopt on WindowsXP

[skaller]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 07:16, Kurt Luoto wrote:

> C:\Documents and Settings\Kurt\My Documents\Xyz\src>ocamlopt -c xyz.ml
> 'ml' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Assembler error, input left in file
> C:\DOCUME~1\KURT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\camlasmd80d01.asm
> 
> Could someone kindly tell me what silly error I am making?
> 

Guess: probably none more serious that using spaces in filenames.

This is really bad idea on Windows, since most Windows
tools are so badly written they do not handle this
correctly! On Win98 the *EXPLORER* doesn't handle
this correctly! [I don't mean IE, I mean the actual
windows explorer file manager!!]

It is possible the mishandling of filenames is in 
the Ocaml driver.. when dispatching programs
with Windows via a command line all filenames
must be quoted (in case they have spaces in them).

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Re: [Caml-list] Newbie question re ocamlopt on WindowsXP

[Eugene Kotlyarov]

Kurt Luoto wrote:

> Now I would like to compile a standalone version of the program using
> ocamlopt.  However, whenever I attempt to compile a ".ml" file, I get a
> message such as the following:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Kurt\My Documents\Xyz\src>ocamlopt -c xyz.ml
> 'ml' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Assembler error, input left in file
> C:\DOCUME~1\KURT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\camlasmd80d01.asm
> 
Probably you didn't install or didn't add to %PATH% Microsoft Assembler 
MASM which is required for MSVC ocaml port. Here is the passage from 
readme.win file from ocaml distribution.

The native-code compiler (ocamlopt) requires Visual C++ and the
Microsoft assembler MASM version 6.11 or later.  MASM can be
downloaded for free from Microsoft's Web site; for directions, see
         http://www.easystreet.com/~jkirwan/pctools.html
     or  http://www2.dgsys.com/~raymoon/faq/masm.html
     or  the comp.lang.asm.x86 FAQ.

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