From: Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>
To: Romain Bardou <bardou@lsv.ens-cachan.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiling Cryptokit on Windows
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:37:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP5QFJ=ySpp0sg2esay2s0VfxggdSwO-h_51zaoA79xqwucQHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F300957.5050708@lsv.ens-cachan.fr>
On 06/02/2012, Romain Bardou <bardou@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
>
> There has been some discussion during the last few months were some
> argued that there was not enough Windows users to test libraries. Well
> it happens that I need to compile Cryptokit for Windows. Here are my
> first results, which failed miserably. I'm using OCaml 3.12.
>
>
> 1) With Cryptokit 1.5.
>
> INSTALL.txt states that I need findlib. I installed OCaml from:
> http://protz.github.com/ocaml-installer/
> And it seems that ocamlfind is not installed by this tool. After more
> search I read here:
> http://www.camlcity.org/archive/programming/findlib.html
> that "Volunteers are still wanted who port findlib to Windows and
> Macintosh."
>
> So I guess that every OASIS project needs findlib, but findlib does not
> work on Windows, so all OASIS projects will not be usable on Windows? I
> thought on the contrary that OASIS was a step towards unification?
>
> I tried anyway without findlib, running:
> ocaml setup.ml -configure
> I get this error: "'c:\Program' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande
> interne" (i.e. "unrecognized internal command"). The command which is
> supposed to be run is:
> c:\Program Files\OCaml\bin\ocamlc.opt.EXE -config > somefile.txt
> It just misses quotes, which seems kind of silly.
>
>
> 2) With Cryptokit 1.3.
>
> So I gave up and tried an older version whose INSTALL file explains how
> to install on Windows.
>
> I checked variables in Makefile.win and ran:
> make -f Makefile.win
> Now the error I get is that gcc cannot find "C:\Program
> Files\OCaml\lib/ocamlrun.a", which actually does not exist, so this is
> not a surprise. This file "ocamlrun.a" does not exist either on my
> Debian computer, so I'm a little surprised here.
>
>
> I think I'll try cross-compiling now, or maybe editing "setup.ml" to put
> quotes around the command.
IIRC, what you want is in setup.data.
--
Adrien Nader
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-06 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-06 17:09 Romain Bardou
2012-02-06 17:56 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-02-06 18:02 ` David Allsopp
2012-02-06 21:37 ` Adrien [this message]
2012-02-20 13:50 ` Romain Bardou
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