From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Pre-compiled ocaml binary for windows
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:21:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFDEE7E.8030000@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnifqvl0.ut5.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org>
On 12/07/2010 01:24 AM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> Here is the list so far:
> 1. no build system setup : Martin who first did the packaging, didn't
> have included how to build ocaml/findlib neither the binaries itself.
> So basically you need to build by hand to generate the .msi. This is
> not a big issue but for a collective effort it is better to have a
> common way to build the binaries
> 2. some environment variables are not set and make ocaml crash (AFAIR, we
> doesn't set OCAMLIB)
> 3. we don't ship the graphical toplevel
> 4. I am still not sure how to deal with ActiveTCL + OCaml (because of the
> ActiveTCL license)
> 5. Total lack of documentation
Do you plan to support ocamlopt? If yes, the users will have to install
a toolchain (at least, an assembler+linker). Mingw has the advantage of
producing binaries that depend only on msvcrt.dll (available on any
fresh Windows installation), not on a specific version of
msvcr80.dll/msvcr90.dll. But Windows users might prefer to install a
version of VS Express or a Windows SDK.
Not building labltk seems ok. As for the graphical toplevel, I think
there are some pending bugs (random crashes) with the current version
under recent versions of Windows, so it's probably better not to include
it. Some support for installing the emacs mode automatically and/or a
version of ledit would be useful replacements.
-- Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 20:06 José Romildo Malaquias
2010-12-06 15:28 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2010-12-06 16:08 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-06 17:50 ` [Caml-list] " Matthieu Dubuget
2010-12-07 0:24 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-07 8:21 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2010-12-07 9:03 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-07 9:30 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2010-12-07 9:42 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-07 9:49 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2010-12-09 11:54 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2010-12-09 13:12 ` Alain Frisch
2010-12-07 9:42 ` gasche
2010-12-07 9:52 ` Alain Frisch
2010-12-07 10:29 ` gasche
2010-12-07 15:57 ` [Caml-list] " ygrek
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