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

[whitequark <whitequark@whitequark.org>]

On 2016-05-20 18:38, Boutillier, Pierre wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Sorry to:
> - reactivate an old thread
> - maybe going into human-relation issue (hopefully not)
> 
> On github live:
> https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-windows
> and
> https://github.com/vouillon/opam-windows-repository
> 
> Both are active (9 days old commit vs 10 days old commit). One has
> yojson, the other (a bit old) lwt. I sit in the middle.
> Could you give me insight of technical design choice differences (i
> don't see) in order to allow me to decide in which direction I should
> put my energy toward helping a "merge"?

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.

Also, Jerome has expressed a desire to merge the opam-cross-* 
repositories
but that didn't go anywhere so far.

> 
> All the best,
> Pierre B.
> 
> 
>> Le 13 mars 2016 à 05:02, whitequark <whitequark@whitequark.org> a 
>> écrit :
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've released opam-cross-windows[1], a 4.02.3 OCaml toolchain
>> in the spirit of opam-cross-android[2] (ex opam-android).
>> It provides easy cross-compilation of the OCaml compiler
>> and select packages from any *nix environment to 32-bit
>> and 64-bit x86 Windows.
>> 
>> There aren't many packages yet but you're encouraged to submit
>> your own. Personally, I find the porting process that uses
>> the opam-cross-* conventions so simple and robust that it
>> can be done nearly mindlessly.
>> 
>> The cross-compiled package definitions themselves are
>> identical to the ones from opam-cross-android (except for
>> s/android/windows) so I think cross-compilation should gain
>> at least minimal OPAM support; I've described my proposal
>> at [3].
>> 
>> [1]: https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-windows
>> [2]: https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-android
>> [3]: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2476
>> 
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