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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:17:29 -0800
From: Robert Roessler <robertr at rftp.com>
Organization: Robert's High-performance Software
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To: LablGTK List <lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: GTK and ocamldebug on Windows
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Dawid Toton wrote:
> Is there any possibility to use both lablgtk2 and ocamldebug on Windows?
> 
> I have installed Cygwin port of OCaml (just to have the debugger).
> lablgtk2/build.ml eventually said "Now ready to use on an OCaml MSVC
> port". Examples say that "dynamic loading not supported on this platform".
> 
> So am I forced to debug only on Linux? Sounds bad.

Well, given that the "step 0" entries in LablGTK's "README.Win32" file 
for both binary and source installations say that the MSVC or mingw 
toolchains are required...

OTOH, I have always been a bit mystified as to *why* the OCaml 
BYTECODE debugger is tied to *nix platforms... one of the reasons why 
one would use a BYTECODE vm (and be willing to trade some performance) 
is *because* of things like debugging.  And we already know that 
OCaml's interpreted representation is NOT platform-dependent.

Ahhh... is it because of being dependent on [features of] BSD sockets?

Of course, you *could* always just say "Real programmers don't need 
debuggers" :)

Robert Roessler
robertr@rftp.com
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