Re: [Caml-list] Compiling Cryptokit on Windows

["Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

> 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."

This URL points to an archived web page, starting with "This is the
archived Findlib page. The new homepage can be found here!", plus a link
to more recent information. Maybe this can be overlooked. The new link is
http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html.

Findlib is fully supported on Win32.

> 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.

I'd call this a self-made trap. I'd never install Unixish software into a
path with spaces. (I know Windows people think differently about that, but
that's how it is.)

> 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 it was renamed to libocamlrun.a. But this is wrong for Win32
anyway, because the suffix should be .lib.

> I think I'll try cross-compiling now, or maybe editing "setup.ml" to put
> quotes around the command.

Yes, it's not a pleasure to build Ocaml software on Windows.

Gerd

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>
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