Re: [Caml-list] ocaml + non-cygwin gtk+ on windows

[Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>]

Joel Reymont wrote:
> Has anyone used ocaml and gtk+ to build non-cygwin app for windows?
> 
> These would be gtk+ apps that don't require the x server.
> 
> What toolchain did you use?

I did this a few years ago and got it to work, though I don't remember 
all the details anymore. I used Visual C++ at the time. I wrote a batch 
file (yeah, primitive, I know) that looked like this:

@echo off
setlocal
call vsvars32

ocamlopt -c json.mli json.ml
ocamlopt -ccopt "/link /libpath:/gtk-2.6.8/lib" -I +lablgtk2 
lablgtk.cmxa -I +extlib extlib.cmxa unix.cmxa -thread -I +threads 
threads.cmxa json.cmx myapp.ml -o myapp.exe

ocamlopt unix.cmxa mkwinapp.ml -o mkwinapp.exe
mkwinapp myapp.exe

The final step, "mkwinapp", was to prevent the DOS command window from 
showing up. http://ocaml-win32.sourceforge.net/

Dave