Re: [Caml-list] ocamlnat

[Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>]

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See also
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/648/files#diff-3c407d7b5a833ffbd112b654e2c59fa0L116
for a patch on opttopdirs.ml


On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:23 PM Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
wrote:

> Thanks for the info. I'll also copy that code to my separate repository,
> so that everybody can easily start experimenting with it. I keep you
> posted on what we find.
>
> Gerd
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2016, 10:50 +0100 schrieb Jeremie Dimino:
> > ocamlnat indeed builds with 4.03 but is not built by default
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Gabriel Scherer
> > <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Thomas Réfis and Jérémie Dimino have been working on ocamlnat
> >         in trunk recently, and ocamlnat builds on either the "trunk"
> >         branch or, I believe, the 4.03 release. You should talk to
> >         them.
> >
> >
> >         Let me take this an opportunity to advertise the "runtop"
> >         target in the compiler distribution's Makefile, which runs a
> >         toplevel from an (uninstalled) build of the compiler
> >         distribution:
> >
> >
> >           make runtop
> >
> >           make natruntop
> >
> >
> >         I added them during the 4.03+dev release cycle, but didn't
> >         mention it in the Changelog (they're not user-facing features)
> >         so most people keep doing weird incantations of
> >         (./byterun/ocamlrun ./ocaml -I nostdlib ...) instead.
> >
> >
> >         On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Gerd Stolpmann
> >         <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
> >                 Hi,
> >
> >                 I've tried to reactivate the ocamlnat tool that comes
> >                 with OCaml but
> >                 isn't built (and even isn't buildable). This repo was
> >                 tested against
> >                 4.02.3:
> >
> >                 https://gitlab.camlcity.org/gerd/ocamlnat
> >
> >                 Since recently I'm quite interested in this, and would
> >                 like to make it
> >                 fully working, including ocamlfind support. For my use
> >                 case the
> >                 disadvantages of the ocamlnat approach (i.e. that it
> >                 requires toolchain
> >                 support for dynlinking, and that the executable
> >                 continuously grows) do
> >                 not matter - I really want it for interactive work,
> >                 and not for
> >                 scripting.
> >
> >                 Gerd
> >                 --
> >
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> >                 Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany
> >                 gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
> >                 My OCaml site:          http://www.camlcity.org
> >                 Contact details:
> >                 http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html
> >                 Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeremie
>
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> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany    gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de
> My OCaml site:          http://www.camlcity.org
> Contact details:        http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html
> Company homepage:       http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de
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