Re: Which build tool to use?

>
> So far I've simply run `corebuild` (a simple wrapper around
> `ocamlbuild`), but that leaves some build stuff in the source folder
> (that sort of breaks with CMake's tradition of building out-of-source).


I'm fairly surprised by this, as ocamlbuild takes care to produce all
target outputs in a separate folder (the _build subdirectory). Could you
say more about what you are doing, what happens and what you expect?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Magnus Therning [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm dipping my toes into the OCaml waters again.  I'm working on a
> project implemented in C/C++, it's lacking tests in many areas, some of
> which require having a server process running. I thought I'd start with
> using OCaml to implement a mock server so I can test the client libs.
>
> The C/C++ project uses CMake to build and now I'd like to plug my OCaml
> build into it, but what to use?
>
> So far I've simply run `corebuild` (a simple wrapper around
> `ocamlbuild`), but that leaves some build stuff in the source folder
> (that sort of breaks with CMake's tradition of building out-of-source).
>
> I've found at least two OCaml build tools, `omake` and `oasis` (besides
> `ocamlbuild`).  Is anyone preferred over the other for new projects?
>
> /M
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