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From: orbitz@ezabel.com
To: Michael Ekstrand <michael@elehack.net>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Lwt and OCamlMakefile
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:42:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5B472F92-1A75-4451-9750-434385F32A55@ezabel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D1018B5.1070800@elehack.net>

Great, that looks like it's working.  Many thanks.


On Dec 20, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote:

> On 12/20/2010 08:36 PM, orbitz@ezabel.com wrote:
>> Thanks, I forgot to mention that I am setting that:
>>
>> (*pp camlp4o pa_lwt.cmo *)
>>
>> (that is where it is coming from in my paste)
>>
>> But it is still failing at the Dynlink.
>
> The thing is that camlp4o doesn't know where to find pa_lwt.cmo.  This
> is what ocamlfind helps with.  Unfortunately, OCamlMakefile's  
> ocamlfind
> integration is incomplete when it comes to preprocessors.
>
> On some systems, you may be able do 'camlp4o -I +lwt pa_lwt.cmo', but
> that isn't portable (it depends on lwt being installed in the std-lib
> directory).
>
> So, the real solution is to use a shell script which wraps 'camlp4o'  
> and
> looks up the appropriate package lines with ocamlfind.  It will do
> something like
>
> camlp4 $(ocamlfind -predicates preprocesor,syntax -syntax camlp4o
> -package lwt.syntax)
>
> but I do not remember the exact details.  I do remember that I  
> defined a
> PP environment variable in my Makefile with the path to the script,  
> so I
> could do
>
> (*pp $PP lwt.syntax *)
>
> and it would expand to wherever the shell script was (I had multiple
> directories in my source tree when I used OCamlMakefile).
>
> - Michael
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21  1:05 orbitz
2010-12-21  2:25 ` [Caml-list] " Markus Mottl
2010-12-21  2:36   ` orbitz
2010-12-21  3:02     ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-12-21 18:42       ` orbitz [this message]
2010-12-22  1:55       ` Romain Beauxis
2010-12-21  8:57     ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-12-21 10:21       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-21 13:18         ` [Caml-list] " Adrien

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