Re: [Caml-list] Simplifying link steps when making shared libraries containing OCaml (possibly OSX specific)

[John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk>]

Hi David,

David Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've packaged up some OCaml code with a C shim and made a shared library
> (a ".so" file) on OSX. It's all working fine! However the build steps
> I'm using are a bit verbose -- I wonder if anyone knows how to simplify
> them?
>
> I'm building all the objects and then using a custom linker invocation,
> see below. Notice that I'm tediously listing all the stubs for all my
> ocamlfind packages-- this seems like it could be simplified somehow.

No answers, I'm afraid, but if you do find a good generic way of doing 
it for OS X (and indeed, Linux), it would be great have patches to this:

https://github.com/johnwhitington/ocaml-main-program-in-c

(which only does static binaries when run under Unix or OS X, but both 
static binaries and dynamic libraries when under Windows.)

You can see that I didn't manage to find a way to automatically extract 
which ocamlfind packs are needed, or indeed if unix or bigarray is 
needed. They must be specified:

https://github.com/johnwhitington/ocaml-main-program-in-c/blob/master/build

Thanks,

John

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