From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA24816; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:39:33 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA25503 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:39:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h8P9dVH20332; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:39:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA23449; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:39:30 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:39:30 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Vincent Barichard Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml 3.07 beta 2 and mingw Message-ID: <20030925113930.A30753@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <3F70187A.000001.00120@lanfeust> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3F70187A.000001.00120@lanfeust>; from Vincent.Barichard@info.univ-angers.fr on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:55:06AM +0200 X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 3.07:01 mingw:01 3.07:01 mingw:01 gcc:01 cygwin:01 non-cygwin:01 msys:01 cygwin:01 non-cygwin:01 cygwin-mingw:01 cruft:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > I've just downloaded ocaml 3.07 beta 2 , and tried to make it with MinGW > (gcc 3.2), but I've got the following error: To build the MinGW version of OCaml, you need full Cygwin; the non-Cygwin MinGW distribution + MSYS tools are not supported. Maybe this version of OCaml should have a more descriptive name such as "compiler runs under Cygwin but produces non-Cygwin, pure Win32 code", but that's quite a mouthful... More generally speaking, one of the major problems with the Windows version of OCaml is the huge diversity of development environments available under Windows. We go so far as to support 3 Windows configurations (full Cygwin, Cygwin-MinGW, and MSVC), which is already stretching things quite far. (By comparison, the Unix sources and Makefiles support > 10 different flavors of Unix with less configuration-specific cruft.) We're sorry, but it's simply not possible to support more Windows configurations. - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners