Re: [Caml-list] flexdll circular dependency on ocamlc: Impossible to built ocaml for mingw without using some prebuilt binaries?

[Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>]

On 26/10/2015 10:13, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
> Dear Alain,
>
>> Dynlink follows a different model: dynlinked units are not tied to a specific
>> main executable.  A myplugin.cmxs can be dynamically linked by any
>> application that provides the required interfaces.
>
> Can you explain what you mean by Dynlink (or point me to some documents)? I though we are talking about loading DLLs with LoadLibrary programmatically (rather than by the image loader). I am quite sure calling main executable functions from a DLL loaded this way does work. But I am not sure we are talking about this mechanism or something else.

I'm talking about the Dynlink library which allows OCaml code to 
dynamically load plugins (made of OCaml + perhaps native code).  The 
loaded code is compiled in the same way as if it were to be linked in 
the main program, but then it is linked into a .cmxs file (which is 
really a dll).

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Dynlink.html

Alain