Ocamlbuild

Documentation

• User manual
• Old user manual
• List and usage of special files.
• List and usage of built-in tags.
• The solver mechanism: what are rules and tags?
• Using ocamlfind with ocamlbuild (integrated since OCaml 3.12, plugin for earlier versions).
• Making plugins.
• The plugin API documentation.

Plugin examples

• "Hello, world!" or how to output to the log file
• Using camlp4 syntax extensions (pa_openin)
• Basic example using ocamlbuild with macros. When the INCLUDE'd files are not in the root directory of the project, one has to take care to pass the correct -I option to camlp4 as explained here.
• Compiling C with gcc
• Compiling LaTeX
• Automatic generation of a "version.ml" file with the compile time
• Generate JSON parser/printer from .atd files

F.A.Q.

• Using an external library
• Using internal libraries
• Using threads
• Using module packs
• Using alphaCaml with ocamlbuild (can be useful as template for another simple package)
• Using an ocamlfind installation of sexplib
• Working on dependent projects with ocamlbuild
• New kinds of build errors
• Ocamlbuild example with C stubs and an abstracted example
• Projects using ocamlbuild