The scripts in this repository compile the MSVC Windows version of
OCaml and make the result available as an artifac (which is then made
available in the releases
tab of this repository). While OCaml needs Cygwin to compile,
using the tarball only requires standard Windows tools.
The .zip file also contains:
flexdll;dune, starting with OCaml 4.05, because it is fast an Windows compatible (recommended for new projects);ocamlfindbecause it requires Unix tools to be compiled (but can be used from the Windows console).
To use it to set up AppVeyor for your
OCaml project, put in appveyor.yml:
install:
- appveyor DownloadFile "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Chris00/ocaml-appveyor/master/install_ocaml.cmd" -FileName "C:\install_ocaml.cmd"
- C:\install_ocaml.cmd
You can choose which OCaml version is installed by setting the
environment variable OCAML_BRANCH:
environment:
OCAML_BRANCH: 4.08
Possible values are 4.02, 4.03, 4.05, 4.06, and 4.08 (the default).
You can of course test simultaneously for several of them,
see e.g. this appveyor.yml
file.
OCaml will be installed in the directory %OCAMLROOT% (and the
binaries will be in the path). You can then use it to compile your
OCaml project.
To compile your project with dune (available for OCAML_BRANCH
≥ 4.08), you can adapt the following recipe:
build_script:
- cd "%APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER%"
- dune subst
- dune build -p name
where name is replaced with the name of your package.
Unfortunately, opam does not yet work on
native Windows. As a transient measure, if your package depends on
other packages that use oasis, you can add the following instructions
to the install target of appveyor.yml:
- appveyor DownloadFile "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Chris00/ocaml-appveyor/master/install_oasis_pkg.ml"
- ocaml install_oasis_pkg.ml <url-pkg1> <url-pkg2> ...