[Caml-list] Compile and link a C program

[Caml-list] Compile and link a C program

[Daniel Bünzli]

Hello, 

Is it possible to use ocamlc as a front-end to compile and link a C program ? 

(Just want to piggyback on ocaml's configure). 

Best,

Daniel 

Re: [Caml-list] Compile and link a C program

[Peter Zotov]

On 2014-10-03 13:22, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to use ocamlc as a front-end to compile and link a C 
> program ?
> 
> (Just want to piggyback on ocaml's configure).

You can compile it with ocamlc foo.c, but I think you cannot trick
ocamlc into linking it.

-- 
Peter Zotov

Re: [Caml-list] Compile and link a C program

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le vendredi, 3 octobre 2014 à 11:35, Peter Zotov a écrit :
> You can compile it with ocamlc foo.c, but I think you cannot trick
> ocamlc into linking it.

Yes that's the bit I'm missing.  

Daniel

Re: [Caml-list] Compile and link a C program

[Gerd Stolpmann]

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Am Freitag, den 03.10.2014, 11:22 +0200 schrieb Daniel Bünzli:
> Hello, 
> 
> Is it possible to use ocamlc as a front-end to compile and link a C program ? 

If you compile it, ocamlc will add the compiler options it uses for
itself (like adding -I<stdlib>). This is usually the right thing to do
for compiling wrappers.

I don't think you can link anything without an ml module.

>(Just want to piggyback on ocaml's configure). 

Another way is to extract all the options from ocamlc -config.

Gerd




> Best,
> 
> Daniel 
> 
> 
> 

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