[Pkg-ocaml-maint-commits] [SCM] mingw32-ocaml packaging branch, master, updated. 63ccffc2e8c0692a10387137046a7f57e0d460b1

[Romain Beauxis]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 4a0a96eb5e72b57fa311f4db89667abddf1a1d97
Author: Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 15 17:18:51 2010 -0600

    Added README.Debian

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+This package is a Debian specific build of OCaml shipping a 
+cross-compiler using the mingw32 compilation tools. 
+
+The target of the compiler is win32, i.e. the compiler 
+creates native binary for Windows. By native, we mean 
+that the binary are compliant with the original win32
+API/ABI, and do not use a POSIX emulation such as cygwin.
+
+This also means that the compiler may not support some
+unix-specific features, in particular in the domain of 
+threads management. The compiler supports, in fact, 
+exactly the features supported by the native OCaml compiler
+for Windows.
+
+The package also includes a support for ocamlfind. In 
+order to use it, you should set the environment variable 
+OCAMLFIND_CONF to /etc/i586-mingw32msvc-ocamlfind.conf.
+
+In order to also force the build system to choose the 
+ocaml cross-compiler, you may add /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin 
+at the beginning of the PATH variable:
+
+  export PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH
+
+Eventually, when the build system uses the autoconf tool, 
+you can build the C libraries with the following options:
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc --host=i586-mingw32msvc
+
+It is convenient to install those libs directly in /usr/i586-mingw32msvc, 
+though not very clean. However, it seems that /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/local is 
+not recognized by the mingw32 cross-compiler.
+
+This package and the binary it provides are not in any way 
+supported by the OCaml original maintainers. For any issue
+with this package, please report a bug on the mingw32-ocaml
+Debian package.
+
+ -- Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org>  Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:02 +0100

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