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From: Mike Spivey <mike@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Funny problem with ocamlc -custom under Cygwin
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:24:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261700682.19386.0.camel@staysail> (raw)

I'm using the MinGW version of OCaml 3.11.0 under Cygwin to build a
custom-linked executable.  The command

        ocamlc -custom -o foo.exe foo.ml

produces the rather cryptic error message

        Access is denied.
        ** Fatal error: hd
        File "_none_", line 1, characters 0-1:
        Error: Error while building custom runtime system
        
This problem has a simple solution: Cygwin allows multiple versions of
gcc to coexist by making /usr/bin/gcc.exe a symlink
to /etc/alternatives/gcc, and making another symlink from there
to /usr/bin/gcc-3.exe. The flexdll tool that's used to link OCaml
programs won't tolerate this.  So you need to remove the
symlink /usr/bin/gcc.exe and copy /usr/bin/gcc-3.exe in its place.  Then
everything works as it should.

Seasonal best wishes to all!

-- Mike Spivey



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