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ximyu
ximyu

Reputation: 2639

How to obtain F# powerpack for F# 3.0

I'm using VS11 Beta on Win 8 Consumer Preview. After install VS11 Beta I have F# 3.0 SDK installed. But I'm not able to find a compatible FSharp.PowerPack.dll as CodePlex only provides PowerPack for F# 2.0.

Any idea how to deal with this?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2421

Answers (4)

Paul Williams
Paul Williams

Reputation: 3357

Update for F# 4.0: At this point the F# PowerPack - or at least the remnants thereof - are on GitHub. The major components have been spun off into their own projects. (FsLex/FsYacc is what brought me here too.)

Upvotes: 1

pad
pad

Reputation: 41290

Don Syme has recently uploaded F# PowerPack 4.0.0.0 which is compiled against F# 3.0.

There is an MSI installer for Windows. There is also a zip archive which even worked with MonoDevelop 3.0/F# 3.0 when I tried to use it on Mac OS X. So much time and efforts are saved especially when one needs to use fslex/fsyacc for parsing.

Upvotes: 3

Tomas Petricek
Tomas Petricek

Reputation: 243061

In addition to what Brian said, I think that the easiest way to use functionality from the F# PowerPack is to just copy the source code for the parts that you're using to your project.

The PowerPack library contains quite a wide range of functionality and I typically only use one or two parts. If you're looking for components like lazy list, parallel collections (PLINQ), hash multi-map or async extensions, you can usually just copy one or two files and you don't have to build the whole library.

(Also note that most of the LINQ functionality from F# PowerPack has moved to the F# core library in F# 3.0)

Upvotes: 5

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 118865

You can compile the PowerPack sources on your own (against F# 3.0), to make your own copy of the library.

Alternatively, I think a binding redirect in your final foo.exe.config, along the lines of

https://stackoverflow.com/a/9648673/19299

but redirecting 2.0.0.0 (that PowerPack uses) to 4.3.0.0 (in VS11 SDK) will also work.

Upvotes: 8

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