Re: [Caml-list] MingW compiler (!) and Ocaml for Windows

[Leypold Software-Dienstleistungen <kontakt@m-e-leypold.de>]

kyra wrote:

> Markus E L wrote:
>> OK. So it seems, @responsefile is only used sometimes, not
>> always. That makes it difficult to see wether the situation actually
>> persists. When was that you got the problem and (if you remember) with
>> which version (approximately at least) of MSYS/MingW). As I said, I'd
>> be interested in the long run to get a distribution of OCaml that is
>> independent of Cygwin and Visual C++.
>
> @responsefile is only used when command-line length exceeds 256 (see
> code in utils/ccomp.ml).
>
> @responsefile idiosyncrasy is a problem of MSYS only (not MinGW).

Then this is probably not the problem from
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.09/notes/README.win32 I'm
referring to? I'm a bit confused here, because, AFAI understand, Ocaml
only uses the C-compiler as a backend and that C-Compiler comes from
MingW? So where does MSYS come in?

Or did I get everything wrong and it is OCaml that doesn't understand
the @responsefile generated by MSYS tools?

In this case, can anybody see a reason why it should not be possible
to use the MingW compilers as a backend to OCaml and compile from
CMD.EXE?

Regards -- Markus