RE: [Caml-list] [ANN] opam-cross-windows

[whitequark <whitequark@whitequark.org>]

On 2016-05-23 08:24, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
> Dear whitequark,
> 
>> My repository uses MXE so that a wide range of native dependencies can 
>> be
>> easily compiled. Moreover, you get opam-cross-android and 
>> opam-cross-ios
>> for free, with exact same conventions, largely similar package sets, 
>> etc, and
>> it is easy to port packages between the three as well.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer to MXE (http://mxe.cc/). A very interesting
> project! It might help to put MinGW cross opam for cygwin on a solid
> foundation.
> 
> One question: how happy are you with the make file approach of MXE? I
> worked an something similar as MXE, but based on shell scripts, since
> I thought "meta makefiles" might be hard to maintain and to debug and
> shell scripts might be more appropriate for this task. But it was a
> difficult decision and I still see some advantages in using make for
> this.

I have absolutely none in-depth understanding of how MXE functions, but 
I
can say that I never needed one, or wanted it, so I'd say it is a 
success :)
Of course, this is only valid from the perspective of a user.

-- 
whitequark