Re: Compiling ocaml files from a "remote" toplevel

On 02.12.2015 14:40, [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> I have two OCaml project directories, Controller_Dir and Controlled_Dir.
> I am inside a toplevel located in Controller_Dir. From that toplevel, I would like
> to compile the ocaml files contained in Controlled_Dir.
>
> If I were outside the toplevel, I would simply type :
>
> cd Controlled_Dir
> ocamlc wathever_I_want_to_compile
> cd Controller_Dir
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> How would I "translate" this in the toplevel ? I tried Sys.command-ing
> everything, but unfortunately this does not work for the cd command.
>
Did you try Sys.chdir and Sys.getcwd  to change directories for the current process?

The cd command is normally a shell builtin:
str@suse132-intel:~> type cd
cd is a shell builtin



/Str.