Message-ID: <45CA4FF9.7050601 at rftp.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:17:29 -0800 From: Robert Roessler Organization: Robert's High-performance Software MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LablGTK List Subject: Re: GTK and ocamldebug on Windows References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Length: 1086 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 http://www.rftp.com