Re: OCaml build failure on Windows

On 7 March 2016 at 20:13, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 March 2016 at 17:55, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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!
>
> OK, it seems to be working now, once the DLLs are copied. I updated
> the instructions here:
>
>   https://github.com/0install/0install#windows-installation
>
> Bastian, can we get the Windows builder updated to use this system? It
> should be a lot easier to keep it up-to-date.

BTW, it's currently failing with:

  'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

https://0install.de/teamcity/viewLog.html?buildId=16477&buildTypeId=ZeroInstall_OCaml_Windows



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