RE: [Caml-list] Trying to setup mingw OCaml 3.12.1 + fresh cygwin

[David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>]

Matthieu Dubuget wrote:
> From: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> > Good to know that 64-bit MinGW is working - that said, I thought the
> MinGW port was broken in 3.12.1 or is that not affected with the 64-bit
> compiler? Could you share details on how you configured OCaml?
> 
> This is not 64 bits. i686-w64-mingw32 is 32 bits.

Ah, my bad - I mistakenly thought the mingw32 was the project and w64 the architecture! 

I'm probably being low, but is the main benefit of using mingw-w64-mingw32 over the version shipped with Cygwin (-mno-cygwin) simply that the latter isn't working with 3.12.1 or is there another reason for using it?

> > #If configure is not patched, a trailing \r\n remains in camlp4's META
> > #file, which breaks it's use with ocamlfind cd
> > ${extractdir}/${findlib} && \ sed -i -e "s/camlp4 -where/camlp4 -where
> > | tr -d '\\\\015'/" configure && \ ./configure -cygpath && \ make all
> > && make opt && make install cd ${here}

I thought that one had been fixed (but clearly not, looking at my 1.2.7 META file for camlp4) - worth sending upstream to Gerd.

Going back to your original question - did those instructions work for zlib?


David