2017-10-16 10:16 GMT-05:00 Pierre Boutillier <pierre.boutill...@laposte.net >: > mingw-ocaml has been indeed of tremendous help in the past. Thank you for providing it. > I don't use it anymore though because: >> Le 16 oct. 2017 à 10:29, Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> a écrit : >> There's some work being done, though, on enabling cross-compiling in OCaml, and just not for windows but I'm not sure what/when. > There is now the opam repository https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-windows that allows you to get an ocaml 4.04 cross compiler! > > Cross compiling is not for everybody (and is useless inside debian itself). Therefore, providing the cross compiler only through an external pure developper channel (opam) seems reasonable to me. The counter argument to that is that github repositories are extremely volatile while debian packages are much more solid. > Anyway, I won't fight to keep this package in debian. That being said, the existence of the repo means that the "high stack of patches" exists (for 4.04.0) and I'm pretty sure it would not take that long for someone interested (which I'm not really anymore) and fluent in debian packaging (which I'm not, sorry) to translate > https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-windows/blob/master/packages/flexdll-windows.0.34/opam > and > https://github.com/whitequark/opam-cross-windows/blob/master/packages/ocaml-windows64.4.04.0/opam > into the correct `rules`.
Wow, that's a tremendous news, I wasn't aware of the existence of this repo. Thanks for putting all this hard work forward guys! I'm no longer a Debian developer, unfortunately, so I won't be able to help on packaging. Any idea if OCaml maintainers would be interested to work toward merging this upstream? Romain
