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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: David Allsopp <David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	"cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Building Coq in Cygwin
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 10:00:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a0f5141-e1c9-efa7-0e59-3107d44390f4@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af76b61e3ad9472ca51e7706bf8e579e@metastack.com>

On 5/6/2021 8:22 AM, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:

 > I fixed the underlying problem in OCaml 4.12, but I haven't had time to propose
 > adopting the Cygwin packages yet - I'm hoping to over the next few months.
 >
 > The short-term workaround is either to use Cygwin32 or to install the opam, libgmp-devel and
 > flexdll 0.39 packages and run:
 >
 >    opam init
 >    opam switch -y create coq ocaml-base-compiler.4.12.0
 >    # This takes a looong time, especially the "make install" step
 >    opam install -y coq
 >    eval $(opam env)
 >    coqtop
 >    Quit.
 >
 > (NB flexdll 0.39 must be selected manually or using the new flexdll=0.39-1 syntax on the command 
line,
 > as I've left it marked test until ocaml 4.12 is packaged)

Thank you, David, that worked great!  I was able then to go on and process a
Coq library I was interested in, and it went through with no problems.  I
appreciate the help!

Best wishes - Eliot

      reply	other threads:[~2021-05-06 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-06  0:56 Eliot Moss
2021-05-06  3:37 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-05-06 12:22   ` David Allsopp
2021-05-06 14:00     ` Eliot Moss [this message]

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