Ping/offer on FlexDLL 0.35, OCaml 4.04, Camlp4, etc.

Ping/offer on FlexDLL 0.35, OCaml 4.04, Camlp4, etc.

[Anton Bachin]

Hello,

Cygwin’s package “ocaml” is currently at 4.02.3, and “flexdll” is at
0.34. The latest FlexDLL, 0.35, makes it possible to build and use OCaml
4.03.0 and 4.04.0 on Cygwin [1].

I am not sure who is the current maintainer of these packages. I
searched the mailing list, and found Damien Doligez apparently submitted
OCaml 4.01.0.

However, I package releases of OCaml and related packages in little
Cygwin mirrors, for use on build bots [2]. If desired, I can adapt the
packages to be suitable for public Cygwin, and submit them. I expect to
be making the build bot packages for quite a while, so I should be able
to also submit to Cygwin on an ongoing basis.

Ideally, this would produce OPAM on Cygwin as well.

Best,
Anton


[1]: http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=7268
[2]: https://github.com/aantron/binaries/tree/master/src/build/cygwin

Re: Ping/offer on FlexDLL 0.35, OCaml 4.04, Camlp4, etc.

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-11-24 14:06, Anton Bachin wrote:
> Cygwin’s package “ocaml” is currently at 4.02.3, and “flexdll” is at
> 0.34. The latest FlexDLL, 0.35, makes it possible to build and use OCaml
> 4.03.0 and 4.04.0 on Cygwin [1].

Thanks for the ping, I just uploaded 0.35.  Hopefully that, combined 
with a new ocaml build, will fix the issues I was having rebuilding my 
various ocaml libs for 4.02.3.

> I am not sure who is the current maintainer of these packages. I
> searched the mailing list, and found Damien Doligez apparently submitted
> OCaml 4.01.0.

And 4.02.3.

> However, I package releases of OCaml and related packages in little
> Cygwin mirrors, for use on build bots [2]. If desired, I can adapt the
> packages to be suitable for public Cygwin, and submit them. I expect to
> be making the build bot packages for quite a while, so I should be able
> to also submit to Cygwin on an ongoing basis.

Damian, your thoughts?

-- 
Yaakov

Re: Ping/offer on FlexDLL 0.35, OCaml 4.04, Camlp4, etc.

[Marco Atzeri]

On 24/11/2016 21:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-11-24 14:06, Anton Bachin wrote:
>> Cygwin’s package “ocaml” is currently at 4.02.3, and “flexdll” is at
>> 0.34. The latest FlexDLL, 0.35, makes it possible to build and use OCaml
>> 4.03.0 and 4.04.0 on Cygwin [1].
>
> Thanks for the ping, I just uploaded 0.35.  Hopefully that, combined
> with a new ocaml build, will fix the issues I was having rebuilding my
> various ocaml libs for 4.02.3.
>
>> I am not sure who is the current maintainer of these packages. I
>> searched the mailing list, and found Damien Doligez apparently submitted
>> OCaml 4.01.0.
>
> And 4.02.3.
>
>> However, I package releases of OCaml and related packages in little
>> Cygwin mirrors, for use on build bots [2]. If desired, I can adapt the
>> packages to be suitable for public Cygwin, and submit them. I expect to
>> be making the build bot packages for quite a while, so I should be able
>> to also submit to Cygwin on an ongoing basis.
>
> Damian, your thoughts?
>

Damien,
are still with us ?

the issue on 64 bit platform is still hurting

Cannot load required shared library dllunix.
Reason: /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs/dllunix.so: flexdll error: cannot 
relocate RELOC_REL32, target is too far: 0xfffffffc35097112  0x35097112.

Regards
Marco

Re: Ping/offer on FlexDLL 0.35, OCaml 4.04, Camlp4, etc.

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-02-11 05:00, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Damien,
> are still with us ?

It seems not. :-(

> the issue on 64 bit platform is still hurting

I have built 4.04.0 and the rest of the basic stack.  There is a bit of 
an issue with flexdll and large libraries (namely, dlllablgtk2.so), but 
stripping the binary (or linking with -Wl,-s) seems to be a viable 
workaround.

In order to get this moving, I've taken ocaml and will upload shortly.

-- 
Yaakov