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brooks94
brooks94

Reputation: 3936

ocamlbuild include extra packages

I am working through the LLVM ocaml tutorial, and using the following command line to compile:

ocamlbuild -cflags -g,-I,+llvm-3.4 -lflags -I,+llvm-3.4 toy.byte

Is there any way to move those extra cflags and lflags into the _tags or myocamlbuild.ml files so that I don't need to type them/can store them in source control/make reproducible builds?

Here is the _tags file:

<{lexer,parser}.ml>: use_camlp4, pp(camlp4of)
<*.{byte,native}>: g++, use_llvm, use_llvm_analysis
<*.{byte,native}>: use_llvm_executionengine, use_llvm_target
<*.{byte,native}>: use_llvm_scalar_opts, use_bindings

And here is the myocamlbuild.ml file:

open Ocamlbuild_plugin;;

ocaml_lib ~extern:true "llvm";;
ocaml_lib ~extern:true "llvm_analysis";;
ocaml_lib ~extern:true "llvm_executionengine";;
ocaml_lib ~extern:true "llvm_target";;
ocaml_lib ~extern:true "llvm_scalar_opts";;

flag ["link"; "ocaml"; "g++"] (S[A"-cc"; A"g++ -rdynamic"]);;
dep ["link"; "ocaml"; "use_bindings"] ["bindings.o"];;

Upvotes: 1

Views: 535

Answers (2)

nlucaroni
nlucaroni

Reputation: 47934

I do something like...

let mlflags = []
and cflags = []
and clibs = []

let rec arg_weave p = function
  | x::xs -> (A p) :: (A x) :: arg_weave p xs
  | []    -> []
and arg x = A x
...
let () = dispatch begin function
  | After_rules ->
    flag ["ocaml"; "compile"] (S (List.map arg mlflags));
    flag ["c"; "compile"]     (S (arg_weave "-ccopt" cflags));
    flag ["c"; "link"]        (S (arg_weave "-cclib" clibs));
    ...
  end

The other option is to tag additional options. For example, in the ocaml_specific.ml file they have one set-up for debug and all the combinations of flag options for where the option is relevant.

flag ["ocaml"; "debug"; "compile"; "byte"] (A "-g");;
flag ["ocaml"; "debug"; "link"; "byte"; "program"] (A "-g");;
flag ["ocaml"; "debug"; "pack"; "byte"] (A "-g");;
flag ["ocaml"; "debug"; "compile"; "native"] (A "-g");;
flag ["ocaml"; "debug"; "link"; "native"; "program"] (A "-g");;
flag ["ocaml"; "debug"; "pack"; "native"] (A "-g");;

then, in the _tags file, you can have true : debug to turn it on for all files, or true can be replaced by a pattern for limiting the option. So if an option doesn't exist already, you can create your own and you'll see that it's similar to the fully myocamlbuild.ml solution, but additional flags for each tag instead of including them all at once.

Upvotes: 2

ygrek
ygrek

Reputation: 6697

-g is replaced by true: debug in _tags.

-I options ideally should be replaced by the corresponding ocamlfind package, e.g. calling ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind and specifying true: package(llvm,llvm_analysis) in _tags and/or whatever other packages are called (and remove ocaml_lib calls in myocamlbuild.ml).

On the side note, just create a Makefile with whatever ocamlbuild invocation is needed and run make to build.

Upvotes: 1

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