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OCaml for Mac

December 1st, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

As I install most Linux/BSD software on Mac via Macports, I figured I’d forgo GODI and try to install OCaml the Macports way.

Everything went mostly smoothly except for ocamlnet which is installed as a dependency of batteries. By default, to avoid installing GPL software, Macports doesn’t build nethttpd and related modules. To work around this, perform the install as usual:

sudo port install caml-batteries

but this won’t install the httpd files. To the ocamlnet Portfile I had to add:

configure.args-append   -with-nethttpd

after configure.pre_args. Also, for ocamlnet 2.2.9, I had to patch src/batCamomile.ml as follows:

replace:
-module CDC = CamomileLibrary.CamomileDefaultConfig
with:
+module CDC = CamomileLibraryDefault.Config
and:
-include CamomileLibrary.Main.Make(CamConfig)
with:
+include CamomileLibrary.Make(CamConfig)
then port uninstall batteries (and ocamlnet), then reinstall.
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  1. Edsko de Vries
    January 26th, 2011 at 05:19 | #1
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    Thanks for posting this, I had a similar problem and your fix worked.

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