OCamlbuild is a generic build tool, that has built-in rules for building OCaml library and programs.
OCamlbuild is a generic build tool, that has built-in rules for building ocaml library and programs.
Questions tagged [ocamlbuild]
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ocamlopt and ocamlbuild give an Unbound module error despite ocamlfind seeing the required module
I'm attempting to build the xencat tool from this project. When I try to use ocamlopt to build it, I get
$ ocamlopt -o xencat xencat.ml
File "xencat.ml", line 1, characters 5-13:
Error: Unbound module Cmdliner
Following guidance here, I verified…
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Bizare errors and I'm unable to build OCaml programs on Windows
I've recently been trying to get OCaml to work, and the interpreter works fine, I just can't build native executable's with it. Here is my program:
let () = print_endline "Hello, World!"
Now if I run ocaml program.ml I get the expected output of…
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Ocamlbuild copy over dependencies to _build
I'm trying to use ocamlbuild to automatically invoke piqi to generate ocaml modules from protobuf definitions. This is a 2 step process where I have to go from a %.protobuf file to a %.proto.piqi and finally to %_piqi.ml.
My rule for the first step…
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Using ocamlbuild to build SDL and OpenGL application
I am trying to create an OCaml program utilizing both ocamlsdl and lablgl, but I can not figure out how to compile it. The relevant information is below:
Note: ocamlsdl is not found by ocamlfind. When I go to the lib directory of .opam, I find an…
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Calling functions in other files in OCaml
I have hello.ml that has a length function:
let rec length l =
match l with
[] -> 0
| h::t -> 1 + length t ;;
call.ml that uses the function:
#use "hello.ml" ;;
print_int (length [1;2;4;5;6;7]) ;;
In interpreter mode (ocaml), I…
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ocamlbuild; building toplevel
Having successfully reorganized my project for ocamlbuild with subdirectories and using ocamlfind, I've found it difficult to build the top-level.
I've constructed a .mltop file containing all the modules that would be included and added the…
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Building OCaml project with Ocamlnet
I'm doing a project in OCaml and I'm trying to use Ocamlnet. I'm using ocamlbuild for the build. Here's my build command line:
ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -pkgs threads,yojson,str,postgresql,netcgi2 \
-cflags -g,-thread -lflags -g,-thread…
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Creating .cma file OCaml
I am new to OCaml and i am trying to use its HANSEI library. For that, i need to include few .ml and .mli files as mentioned here along with caml-shift.tar.gz as mentioned here.
Initial line of contents in my MakeFile is as follows:
# HANSEI: OCaml…
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Add build tool to ocamlbuild project (Ragel)
I am looking to add the ability to compile Ragel source files into Ocaml source files in the context of the LLVM Ocaml tutorial. Specifically, for source files with a ".rl" extension I would want it to execute:
ragel -O source.rl
The build system…
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How to create a GTK plugin (cmxs) for my OCaml program
I'd like to make a GTK plugin for my OCaml application, loaded using Dynlink. How can I get ocamlbuild to include the lablgtk2 library in the generated plugin?
As a test, I have main.ml:
let () =
try
Dynlink.loadfile "_build/gtk_plugin.cmxs"
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(OCamlfind) build library with dependencies to Core
I'm trying to build a small library that has dependencies to Core and Core_extended. I followed the instructions under Where to place a shared utility module in OCaml? and installed the library in ocamlfind (declaring a dependency to Core_extended…
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How do i compile something with Pgocaml
I'm trying to use Pgocaml for database interactions within my application.
This is the file I'm trying to compile:
let () =
let dbh = PGOCaml.connect () in
let insert name salary email =
PGSQL(dbh) "insert into employees (name, salary,…
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Using OCaml syntax extension in Camlp4 with ocamlbuild
I am having an issue with using the deriving-ocsigen syntax extension in my camlp4 parser. My parser is called pa_debug.ml
Here's the tags file:
: pp(camlp4orf.opt), package(deriving-ocsigen.syntax), syntax(camlp4o)
When compiled…
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How to use ocamlbuild with OPAM in ocaml?
I wrote two libraries (Bson.ml and Mongo.ml) in ocaml.
I wish to enable it for opam.
In the instruction of opam, it says it needs make build and make install.
I am always using ocamlbuild and ocamlfind to build and install my library locally.
How…
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Is it possible to generate inferred mli files with oasis?
I realize you can generate the inferred mli files one by one using ocamlbuild xxx.inferred.mli but I would prefer this to be done automatically for me (too see which types ocaml infers and to use these mli's as a basis for my own). Of course I would…
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