From: "Dmitry Bely" <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
To: "Caml Mailing List" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Re : Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin?
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:50:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90823c940712240450m6ade7eb9h5f2948f3c0f91fb1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666572260712230833j79ea3f41vc3649b6b3e17940f@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 23, 2007 7:33 PM, Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess that Ocaml maintainers should just drop that Cygwin requirement, and
> > tweak their build process to work "out of the box" with MSYS/MinGW.
>
> You shouldn't see cygwin as a _requirement_.
> Ocaml installation from source (let the binary distributions be a
> special case) use C. If there is no c compiler installed as it is
> under all windows installations (I mean right after setup is
> completed) ocaml simply can't be installed ; the problem is not with
> ocaml or cygwin but with windows. Cygwin is not a fancy requirement
> just one of the few ways to get a c compiler under windows.
Not only compiler; Ocaml build process actively uses various Unix
utilities that Cygwin provides: make, sh, sed, etc. I see no reason to
have another set of there utilities in addition to Cygwin's one.
- Dmitry Bely
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-24 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 14:30 Kuba Ober
2007-12-20 15:23 ` Zheng Li
2007-12-20 20:18 ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
2007-12-21 14:06 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-23 15:20 ` "Márk S. Zoltán"
2007-12-23 16:33 ` Re : " Adrien
2007-12-24 12:50 ` Dmitry Bely [this message]
2007-12-26 17:59 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 17:54 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-06 15:14 ` Re : " Adrien
2008-01-08 14:25 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-24 10:40 ` Richard Jones
2007-12-26 18:01 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 17:45 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 22:48 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-27 12:41 ` Kuba Ober
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