From: "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
To: "Christian Sternagel" <christian.sternagel@uibk.ac.at>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] documentation for building C++ libraries with ocamlbuild
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:13:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd67f63a0703250313w2cc47613k7002e27e68433d90@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070324185823.GA10280@pc6197-c703.uibk.ac.at>
On 3/24/07, Christian Sternagel <christian.sternagel@uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> Is there some documentation or at least a tutorial for how to setup ocamlbuild in order to build a lib<name>.a file from a bunch of *.c, *.C, and *.h files?
$ cat libfoo.clib
foo1.o
bar2.o
...
$ ocamlbuild libfoo.a
> And after having done that, how to tell ocamlbuild that some ocmal-program which is build depends on lib<name>.a.
$ cat _tags
<myocamprog.{byte,native}: use_foo
$ cat myocamlbuild.ml
open Ocamlbuild_plugin;;
open Command;;
dispatch begin function
| After_rules ->
flag ["ocaml"; "link"; "use_foo"]
(SA"-cc"; A"g++"; A"-ccopt"; A"-Lfoo"; A"-custom"; A"-cclib"; A"-Ifoo"
>
> Currently I build lib<name>.a using a Makefile and the g++ compiler. After that I create a <name>.cma like
>
> ocamlc -cc g++ -ccopt -L<name> -a -o <name>.cma -custom \
> <some *.cmo files> -cclib -l<name>
>
> Then I compile the program using the ocaml-interfaced C++ library like
>
> ocamlc -cc g++ -o <progname> -ccopt -L<path to lib<name>.a> \
> -cclib -l<name> <name>.cma <some *.cmo files>
>
> For each of the 3 steps I need a different Makefile and almost always when something changes I have to do the cumbersome
> make clean; make depend; make cycle to avoid any compile errors
> like inconsistent assumptions over interfaces. There should be an easier way, shouldn't it?
>
> cheers
>
> christian
>
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Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai <ertai@feydakins.org>
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