I have simple program, which uses function from Core.Std module, e.g.:
open Core.Std
let _ = List.last [1;2;3]
I can compile and link it by ocamlfind or ocamlbuild:
ocamlfind ocamlc -package core -linkpkg -thread app.ml
ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -pkgs core -tag thread app.native
But I don't know how to compile and link such file using "normal" OCaml compiler:
ocamlc -c -I ~/.opam/system/lib/core_kernel/ -I ~/.opam/system/lib/core/ app.ml
ocamlc ~/.opam/system/lib/core_kernel/core_kernel.cma ~/.opam/system/lib/core/core.cma app.cmo
Last of above commands gives the following error:
File "_none_", line 1:
Error: Error on dynamically loaded library: /home/maciej/.opam/system/lib/stublibs/dllcore_kernel_stubs.so: /home/maciej/.opam/system/lib/stublibs/dllcore_kernel_stubs.so: undefined symbol: caml_ba_alloc
What am I doing wrong?
You can use ocamlfind ocamlc -only-show … to see the full command constructed by ocamlfind . Your error points towards some missing transitive dependencies of Core and an old version of OCaml and Core.
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I have this in a file named main.ml:
let () = JsooTop.initialize ()
I tried compiling the file using:
ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml -linkpkg -o main.byte main.ml
But this error appears:
File "main.ml", line 1, characters 9-27:
Error: Unbound module JsooTop
It appears that JsooTop is not present on my machine, so I ran opam install js_of_ocaml-toplevel, and tried compiling the file again using:
ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml -package js_of_ocaml-toplevel -linkpkg -o main.byte main.ml
js_of_ocaml main.byte
But I get warnings:
Warnings from ocamlfind:
findlib: [WARNING] Interface topdirs.cmi occurs in several directories: /usr/lib/ocaml, /usr/lib/ocaml/compiler-libs
Warnings from the js_of_ocaml executable:
There are some missing primitives
Dummy implementations (raising 'Failure' exception) will be used if they are not available at runtime.
You can prevent the generation of dummy implementations with the commandline option '--disable genprim'
Missing primitives provided by +dynlink.js:
caml_add_debug_info
caml_dynlink_add_primitive
caml_dynlink_get_current_libs
caml_dynlink_lookup_symbol
caml_dynlink_open_lib
caml_remove_debug_info
Missing primitives provided by +toplevel.js:
caml_get_current_environment
caml_get_section_table
caml_invoke_traced_function
caml_realloc_global
caml_reify_bytecode
caml_static_alloc
caml_static_free
caml_static_release_bytecode
caml_terminfo_setup
My question is: what is the proper way to compile a file that uses the JsooTop module?
First, make sure that the required OPAM packages are present:
opam install js_of_ocaml js_of_ocaml-toplevel
To build a program that uses the JsooTop module, compile the file in this way:
ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml -package js_of_ocaml-toplevel -linkpkg -o main.byte main.ml
js_of_ocaml --toplevel --dynlink +dynlink.js +toplevel.js main.byte
Note the inclusion of --toplevel, --dynlink, +dynlink.js, and +toplevel.js. The commands above will produce a JavaScript file named main.js.
After installing npm and node, compiling OCaml files with js_of_ocaml gave errors, thus I did opam switch reinstall system:
:testweb $ opam switch reinstall system
Your system compiler has been changed. Do you want to upgrade your OPAM installation ? [Y/n] y
=-=- Upgrading system -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 🐫
[WARNING] base-ocamlbuild.base is not available because it requires OCaml >= 3.10 & < 4.03. Skipping.
[WARNING] camlp4.4.02+system is not available because your system doesn't comply with preinstalled &
ocaml-version >= "4.02" & ocaml-version < "4.03". Skipping.
[WARNING] ppx_tools.4.02.3 is not available because your system doesn't comply with ocaml-version >=
"4.02.0" & ocaml-version < "4.03.0". Skipping.
The following dependencies couldn't be met:
- deriving -> camlp4
Your request can't be satisfied:
- camlp4 is not available because your system doesn't comply with ocaml-version >= "4.04".
No solution found, exiting
The former package state can be restored with opam switch import "/Users/softtimur/.opam/backup/state-20160418124642.export" --switch system
Then, i realized ocamlfind did not work anymore:
:testweb $ ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml.ppx -linkpkg cubes.ml -o T
-bash: /Users/softtimur/.opam/system/bin/ocamlfind: No such file or directory
PS: node --version gives v6.1.0; npm --version gives 3.8.6; ocaml -version gives The OCaml toplevel, version 4.03.0.
js_of_ocaml --version was 2.7, but after the opam swtich reinstall system, it gives -bash: /Users/softtimur/.opam/system/bin/js_of_ocaml: No such file or directory.
Does anyone know what to do to make all these packages compatible?
Earlier: Here were the compilation errors after installing npm and node, and before doing opam switch reinstall system:
:testweb $ ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml.ppx -linkpkg cubes.ml -o T
Failure("Ast_mapper: OCaml version mismatch or malformed input")
File "cubes.ml", line 1:
Error: Error while running external preprocessor
Command line: /Users/softtimur/.opam/system/lib/js_of_ocaml/./ppx_js '/var/folders/fn/0rmvqqbs4k76lg5g6b7kll100000gn/T/camlppxffe989' '/var/folders/fn/0rmvqqbs4k76lg5g6b7kll100000gn/T/camlppx02e06a'
Another way also gave an error:
:testweb $ ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml -syntax camlp4o -package js_of_ocaml.syntax -linkpkg -o cubes.byte cubes.ml
Fatal error: unknown C primitive `caml_is_printable'
File "cubes.ml", line 1:
Error: Error while running external preprocessor
Command line: camlp4 '-I' '/usr/local/lib/ocaml/camlp4' '-I' '/Users/softtimur/.opam/system/lib/js_of_ocaml' '-parser' 'o' '-parser' 'op' '-printer' 'p' 'pa_js.cmo' 'cubes.ml' > /var/folders/fn/0rmvqqbs4k76lg5g6b7kll100000gn/T/ocamlpp8b28e8
Initially:
My initial goal is to write and compile cubes.ml such that 1) it wraps an OCaml function to make a JS function that can be called in web; 2) the OCaml function and the bytecode can be tested in a command line under Linux.
cubes.ml is as follows:
let () =
let oneArgument (a: int) = a + 100 in
Js.Unsafe.global##.jsOneArgument := Js.wrap_callback oneArgument;
print_string "hello\n";
exit 0
Then, ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml.ppx -linkpkg cubes.ml -o T should generate T such that ./T should return hello. And js_of_ocaml T -o cubes.js should generate cubes.js such that the function jsOneArgument of cubes.js can well be called by other JS or HTML files.
Before I messed up the packages, ./T returned Unimplemented Javascript primitive caml_pure_js_expr!, that is why i installed npm, node, etc...
I switched back to OCaml 4.02.3:
opam switch 4.02.3
Then,
eval `opam config env`
Then,
opam install ppx_tools js_of_ocaml
As a result, ocamlfind ocamlc -package js_of_ocaml.ppx -linkpkg cubes.ml -o T generates T, and js_of_ocaml T -o cubes.js generates cubes.js. node cubes.js does return hello.
However, ./T still returns Unimplemented Javascript primitive caml_pure_js_expr!, I am going to open another post for that...
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 that cmdliner was installed and that it was visible to ocamlfind, and then tried again:
Here's what ocamlfind list shows:
$ ocamlfind list
bigarray (version: [distributed with Ocaml])
bytes (version: [distributed with OCaml 4.02 or above])
...
cmdliner (version: 0.9.8)
...
No luck:
$ ocamlfind ocamlopt -o xencat xencat.ml
File "xencat.ml", line 1, characters 5-13:
Error: Unbound module Cmdliner
Following this page, I tried ocamlbuild:
$ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind xencat.byte
+ ocamlfind ocamlc -c -o xencat.cmo xencat.ml
File "xencat.ml", line 1, characters 5-13:
Error: Unbound module Cmdliner
Command exited with code 2.
Clearly I'm missing something, but being new to Ocaml, I don't know what else to try.
ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -package cmdliner xencat.byte
?
To build this project use the following command at the root of the project:
./configure
make build
You will find a xencat.native file in the root folder.
You can also use opam to build it, as opam will handle all dependencies to you. Just go to the root of the project and say:
opam pin add vchan .
and answer yes to whatever opam asks to do.
I am trying to use ocamlbuild to build my project. It needs to take into account an external library (also compiled with ocamlbuild) that contains in the folder myfolder/ the following files (myfolder is a symlink to the good library that I create in the file myocamlbuild.ml):
$ ls _build/myfolder/
PhTools.cmi PhTools.ml PhTools.mli
PhTools.cmo PhTools.ml.depends PhTools.mli.depends
To compile my library I run the following command:
ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -plugin-tags "package(eliom.ocamlbuild),package(containers),package(fileutils)" -Is "myfolder" -mods "myfolder/PhTools.cmo" _server/./TestHelloServices.cmo
When I run it I have the error:
[...]
ocamlfind ocamlc -I '' -I _server -I _type -i -thread -package eliom.server -package eliom.syntax.predef -package eliom.syntax.type -syntax camlp4o _type/TestHelloServices.ml > _type/TestHelloServices.inferred.mli
+ ocamlfind ocamlc -I '' -I _server -I _type -i -thread -package eliom.server -package eliom.syntax.predef -package eliom.syntax.type -syntax camlp4o _type/TestHelloServices.ml > _type/TestHelloServices.inferred.mli
File "TestHelloServices.eliom", line 6, characters 10-17:
Error: Unbound module PhTools
Command exited with code 2.
As you can see the option -I myproject hasn't been given to the command ocamlfind ocamlc -i .... You can note that if I add by hand ocamlfind ocamlc -i -I 'myproject' this step works. I tried lot's of differents things to solve my problem : using -cflags '-I,myproject' -lflags '-I,myproject', putting in _tags the line:
myproject: include
but I always have this error.
I don't know if it's a relevant information but I use a slightly modified version of the ocsigen myocamlbuild.ml file:
let client_dir = "_client"
let server_dir = "_server"
let type_dir = "_type"
module M = Ocamlbuild_eliom.Make(struct
let client_dir = client_dir
let server_dir = server_dir
let type_dir = type_dir
end)
open Ocamlbuild_plugin;;
let () =
dispatch begin function
| Before_options ->
M.dispatcher Before_options;
(* Link root project *)
(try
Unix.symlink "../../../../../myfolder/" "_build/myfolder"
with Unix.Unix_error (Unix.EEXIST, _, _)-> ());
| hook -> M.dispatcher hook
end;
Thank you in advance,
TobiasBora.
I guess ocamlbuild will not follow "external" (out of project tree) links.
Maybe hardlink will work, but better yet install the library as the normal ocamlfind package.
I have a three signatures A.mli,B.mli,and C.mli. Within them I have submodules Aa, Bb, and Cc respectively and also a signature for the implementations Ai, Bi, and Ci.
I have implemented them in a file called D.ml which looks like this
open A
open B
open C
module Ai : Aa = struct ... end
module Bi : Bb = struct ... end
module Ci : Cc = struct ... end
I compile them each in turn with the following commands:
ocamlfind ocamlc -linkpkg -thread -package core A.mli
ocamlfind ocamlc -linkpkg -thread -package core B.mli
ocamlfind ocamlc -linkpkg -thread -package core C.mli
ocamlfind ocamlc -linkpkg -thread -package core D.ml
which all succeed.
I then have a file E.ml where I try to use the modules Ai, Bi, Ci.
open A
open B
open C
module M = Ai(Ci)
(* do something else *)
However when I try to compile E.ml I get the
Error: Error while linking E.cmo:
Reference to undefined global `A`
I think I have to somehow include D.ml in the compilation step but I'm unsure how to.
Using ocamlc or ocamlopt compiler directly (even with the help of ocamlfind) is not an easy task, and should be left only for those, who write OCaml tools and very sure in what they're doing. So, in short, just use ocamlbuild, that is the default way of compiling things in OCaml world. Since, you're using Core library it would be also a good idea to use corebuild instead of ocamlbuild. corebuild is shipped with core, and is actually a small wrapper around ocamlbuild, that adds core dependencies, as well as some handy flags. So, with corebuild you can compile just with:
corebuild E.native
Without corebuild, you can compile with
ocamlbuild -pkg core E.native
ocamlbuild will do all the work for you, i.e., find all dependencies, sort them in correct order, invoke proper tools, etc... You just need this one, command.
If you're still interested in how to compile your example project properly, then you can ask ocamlbuild about this. Use -classic-display option, that will show you all intermediate commands,
ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -classic-display -pkg core E.byte
Will show you all steps. (You may need to ocamlbuild -clean, so that you can see all the steps from the start).