From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD22BBAF for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:38:05 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsoBAFOu9EhDWxLCbmdsb2JhbACBcpFtPqwBgWs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,410,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="18105775" Received: from ip67-91-18-194.z18-91-67.customer.algx.net (HELO server1.bertec.net) ([67.91.18.194]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 14 Oct 2008 23:38:04 +0200 Received: from kuba.bertec.net (kuba.bertec.net [192.168.2.16]) by server1.bertec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3370105761 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:38:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Kuba Ober To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Road to native windows OCaml... Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:38:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200810131935.53365.kuba@mareimbrium.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810141738.03532.kuba@mareimbrium.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 mingw:01 cygwin:01 compilation:01 cygwin:01 cheers:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 motivation:02 motivation:02 native:03 native:03 compiled:04 On Tuesday 14 October 2008, David Allsopp wrote: > Kuba Ober wrote: > > I've looked briefly at what it'd take to have OCaml > > fully working natively (with mingw/VS), without any Cygwin > > needed for compilation. > > Can I ask what the motivation is for this (out of interest, not criticism)? > It only takes a matter of minutes to install Cygwin and it can be > completely ignored once OCaml is compiled (I don't even have Cygwin in my > PATH). The motivation is that I'm allergic to Cygwin. And you're not quite right that Cygwin is not needed later on: it is if you need to generate native code, or link with native code. Cheers, Kuba