From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D506BBAF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:58:03 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmsDAIMj9UjAXQImiGdsb2JhbACTIT4BAQEVIqMAbIgOAQMBA4Fo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,414,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="18113885" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2008 07:58:02 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m9F5w2DP030685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:58:02 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AioBAAsj9UjRVY64lGdsb2JhbACTIT4BAQEBCQkMBxEDon1siA8BAwEDgWg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,414,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="30351305" Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.184]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2008 07:58:01 +0200 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d27so2533629tid.9 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:57:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9MqFULd/Eryk/KspkCbQSxP6L0ary1cKvznRJAdAdNg=; b=tDesBXSHIX7b9gajQlC15EFIsODfdCzqfAjZgjGodIbdug1r002Rfz46EJp7wv/0I6 pd8+MZwEHZaxOjRD2luGCFJY0+O29s9r24V6SqID31PBn3dO5d2Q5AjY9Z5+4Stq59t1 +wI1z1sg+KLglL3YUfg5IMySl4iOMfJTH6at8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=ltjQFemuCQhhp6YTdqfeFg31u3WX7Jmlfw2GQHaaAq6xI6J5gMuszUAEEYqYz/weXb pTUXYYPgKVm0uqn8nUHav8Od6RlSfS5ejIMyUY0wau7UdinnwJdUqOEixlEqxVxErS+t vVaIlHfWzmCJAPH4E2+Cl7MYAe8Vgf34iPGe0= Received: by 10.110.5.18 with SMTP id 18mr405120tie.10.1224050278868; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.47.15 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <90823c940810142257q1d27e5ccxe9aa3f6b10588e2a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:57:58 +0400 From: "Dmitry Bely" To: "Caml List" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Road to native windows OCaml... In-Reply-To: <200810141738.03532.kuba@mareimbrium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200810131935.53365.kuba@mareimbrium.org> <200810141738.03532.kuba@mareimbrium.org> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48F5866A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 mingw:01 cygwin:01 compilation:01 cygwin:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 dmitry:01 dmitry:01 caml-list:01 bely:01 bely:01 motivation:02 motivation:02 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Kuba Ober wrote: > On Tuesday 14 October 2008, David Allsopp wrote: >> Kuba Ober wrote: >> > I've looked briefly at what it'd take to have OCaml >> > fully working natively (with mingw/VS), without any Cygwin >> > needed for compilation. >> >> Can I ask what the motivation is for this (out of interest, not criticism)? >> It only takes a matter of minutes to install Cygwin and it can be >> completely ignored once OCaml is compiled (I don't even have Cygwin in my >> PATH). > > The motivation is that I'm allergic to Cygwin. And you're not quite right that > Cygwin is not needed later on: it is if you need to generate native code, > or link with native code. No, if you use MSVC-build Ocaml it's not needed at all. - Dmitry Bely