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From: Xavier Leroy <xleroy@pauillac.inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: ocamldep
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:33:42 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <31EC2675.283@argos.uniandes.edu.co> from "Ernesto Posse" at Jul 16, 96 06:32:05 pm
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> Hello everybody. I have been having a little trouble with the Dependency 
> Generator ocamldep that comes in the Windows 95 version 1.01 of O'Caml. 
> The reference manual says that the typical use of ocamldep should be 
> something like this:
> 
> 	ocamldep *.mli *.ml > .depend
> 
> The problem is that ocamldep doesn't seem to recognize the *.mli and 
> *.ml arguments

Well, the Objective Caml sources come from a Unix background, where
wildcards (*.ml) are expanded by the command shell and the commands
receive an already-expanded argument list. One day I may add
command-line expansion in the Objective Caml start-up code, but don't
hold your breath.

> and I have to list explicitly all of my project files but 
> I get a "line too long" error from the line command interpreter. (a 
> MS-DOS window).

I thought Win32 finally raised the length limit on the command line to
some reasonable value like 4k. At any rate, you can always split the
call to ocamldep thus:

        ocamldep [some files] > .depend
        ocamldep [more files] >> .depend
        ...

Also, a "for" loop may work, for instance

        for %i in (*.ml) do ocamldep %i >> .depend

(that's probably the wrong syntax, but you get the idea).

- Xavier Leroy