Re: OCaml build failure on Windows

On 28 February 2016 at 19:22, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 February 2016 at 18:35, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> commit bc11f017c298 (Use Format module in more places) makes the OCaml
>> builds on Windows fail:
>> https://0install.de/teamcity/viewLog.html?buildId=16107&buildTypeId=ZeroInst
>> all_OCaml_Windows&tab=buildLog
>>
>> Perhaps some additional build dependency needs to be installed on the build
>> agent?
>
> It's just that it's using an older OCaml (4.00). I've pushed a fix.
>
> We should probably drop 4.00 support at some point though. 4.03 is
> about to be released!
>
> I think the current Windows build uses WODI, but we should be able to
> switch to opam (the standard OCaml package manager, used on Linux and
> OS X) soon. I need to check what the status is, but I think the
> current work is here:
>
>   https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/
>
> I haven't got a Windows VM to test it on at the moment though.

An update on this: I've created a branch to experiment with
opam-on-Windows. It builds using the Appveyor Windows CI. Currently,
all dependencies can be installed with opam, and 0install builds, but
the tests fail (they didn't work before, either, though):

  https://github.com/0install/0install/tree/appveyor

  https://ci.appveyor.com/project/talex5-ci/0install/build/1.0.4

Testing locally on a new Windows VM however, I got a missing DLL error:

  https://github.com/fdopen/opam-repository-mingw/issues/12#issuecomment-192940646

Still, if someone can get this working then installation on Windows
will become much easier!


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