From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Peter Jolly <peter@jollys.org>
Cc: Roger Levy <rlevy@inf.ed.ac.uk>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building PCRE-OCaml on Win32
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:44:48 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0511072141470.847@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436135B7.3070607@jollys.org>
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Peter Jolly wrote:
> Roger Levy wrote:
> > Installing library with ocamlfind
> > ocamlfind install pcre META pcre.mli pcre.cmi pcre.cma pcre.cmxa pcre.a
> > libpcre_stubs.a dllpcre_stubs.so
> > ocamlfind: dllpcre_stubs.so: No such file or directory
>
> This is your problem. It is attempting to install a .so file, which
> _cannot_ exist, since (a) Cygwin uses .dll for shared libraries rather
> than .so, and (b) the Cygwin port of OCaml does not support shared
> libraries in any case.
>
> Rebuild PCRE for static linking only, and it should install happily.
FWIW, the experimental 3.08.1-2 version of ocaml on Cygwin does support
shared libraries (at least to the extent of allowing loading them from the
top-level). I'm slowly working towards adding full shared library support
so that all tools do the right thing when building packages.
Igor Pechtchanski
Volunteer O'Caml maintainer for Cygwin
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-27 19:54 Roger Levy
2005-10-27 19:58 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-27 20:06 ` Roger Levy
2005-10-27 20:16 ` Peter Jolly
2005-10-27 21:30 ` Roger Levy
2005-11-08 2:44 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
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2004-05-13 22:32 HENRIKSON, JEFFREY
2004-05-11 19:43 brian donovan
2004-05-12 17:25 ` Markus Mottl
2004-05-15 12:31 ` Eugene Kotlyarov
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