RE: porting OCaml on OSKit

To: Jay Lepreau <lepreau@cs.utah.edu>, Vishal Zinjuvadia <zvishal@ittc.ukans.edu>
Subject: RE: porting OCaml on OSKit
From: Greg Morrisett <jgm@cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:57:33 -0500
Cc: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu, mharris@cs.cornell.edu
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

Actually, Matt Harris (mharris@cs.cornell.edu) has done the port 
and hence knows the details.  

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Lepreau [mailto:lepreau@cs.utah.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:29 AM
> To: Vishal Zinjuvadia
> Cc: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu; jgm@CS.Cornell.EDU
> Subject: Re: porting OCaml on OSKit 
> 
> 
> 		OCaml is a Objective variant of ML. I have 
> version 2.04 of OCaml
> 	working on Redhad linux 6.0.    To port OCaml on OSKit, 
> I tried to use
> 	ix86-oskit-gcc to compile the files and make OCaml. 
> ix86-oskit-gcc
> 	doesnt exactly behave like the linux gcc and for some 
> files it shows
> 	parse errors. I couldnot figure out the reason.
> 
> I was at a meeting earlier this week and learned that Greg Morrisett's
> group at Cornell has ported OCaml to the OSKit, in the course of
> getting TAL running on the OSKit.  At least I think that's what was
> involved.  So maybe they can just give the Caml part to you.
> 
> I have cc'ed Greg.
> 
> 	I had one more difficulty. How do I use the build tools (ar,
> 	sed, ranlib) 
> 
> They aren't currently provided.
> 	
> 	and the basic interfaces (open/close/read/write/seek) in
> 	OSKit.  (ie how are they provided in OSKit).
> 
> Just use these posix things; they should work.  There are lots of
> example programs to look at and build on.  grep is your friend.
>