Re: [Caml-list] ocamlfind question on cygwin

[Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 19:23 +0200 schrieb Alan Schmitt:
> On 6 mai 09, at 18:11, Dmitry Bely wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Alan Schmitt
> > <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to debug some installation issue on godi/mingw, and it  
> >> seems to
> >> be a problem with ocamlfind using a cygwin console. When I try:
> >>
> >> $ ocamlfind install lwt -destdir
> >> "/home/Administrateur/godi/lib/ocaml/pkg-lib" META
> >> ocamlfind: Bad configuration: Cannot mkdir
> >> /home/Administrateur/godi/lib/ocaml/pkg-lib\lwt because a path  
> >> component
> >> does not exist or is not a directory
> >
> > Probably your ocamlfind is a mingw (native Win32) application, and so
> > you cannot use cygwin paths (/home/...).
> 
> As godi uses cygwin paths, does it mean that one cannot use ocamlfind  
> in godi packages for mingw?

Actually, this is a big problem. In godi_console, I worked around by
translating paths between cygwin and Win32 as needed. All other godi
apps do not provide this convenience feature - they are win32 apps and
require win32 paths.

In order to help packages, there is LOCALBASE_NATIVE. It is LOCALBASE
translated to Win32 style. Look into the godi-findlib package for an
example how to use it.

Gerd
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