Re: [Caml-list] Preparing a project for opam

["Petter A. Urkedal" <paurkedal@gmail.com>]

On 8 January 2017 at 00:38, Helmut Brandl <helmut.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am trying to prepare my project to being published via opam. I have pinned
> my project to a local version on my harddisk and generated and opam file
> which opam can build successfully.
>
> Now I am struggling with the "install" section of the opam file.
>
> For building I use ocamlbuild which builds a native executable file in the
> source directory (to be precise in the _build subdirectory of the source
> directory). Installing just means copying this executable into a directory
> which is in the search path. I have achieved this by copying the executable
> directly to ".opam/system/bin". However I am not sure if this is the
> recommended way since somebody else might have chosen another directory name
> and path on where to store ".opam".
>
> Is there a portable way to do this? Thanks for any hint.

Yes, take a look at the "package-name.install" section in
http://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Manual.html.  You can then drop the install
section from the opam file, and it also saves you from maintaining a
corresponding removal script, as opam will keep track of what gets
installed.