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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Thoughts on targeting windows

Hi,

William wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we are considering using OCaml for a rather large project, the bulk of
> which will be networking and encryption. OCaml seems to meet our needs
> with one exception:
> we'd like to target windows (as well as linux & mac) and we got the
> impression that this would be complicated -- we gathered that neither
> jane street's Core nor OPAM are windows compatible.
>
> Would still recommend using OCaml? Are there workarounds, or other
> libraries that would replace Core?

Here is the Windows installer:

http://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/

This also installs 'ocamlfind', which means that you can download source 
packages for libraries you're interested in, compile them, install them 
and use them relatively easily. Not as convenient as OPAM, of course.

Here is a library for cryptography:

https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/cryptokit/

Here is a library for concurrency which runs on Windows:

http://ocsigen.org/lwt/

Here is a different Standard Library replacement/augmentation:

https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included

(The software I build for Windows, whilst complex in terms of what it 
does, is just a single statically linked executable which reads a file, 
processes it and writes a file, so I can't tell you anything about 
networking under Windows.)

Thanks,

-- 
John Whitington
Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd
http://www.coherentpdf.com/