Custom tests template dune
Could anyone give a template of OCaml custom tests, there is no resource on any websites for how to give custom tests, I basically need three components: Dune file, tests.ml, tests.expected. The...
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[ANN] release 0.3.0 of drom, the OCaml project creator
Hi, We are pleased to release version 0.3.0 of drom, the OCaml project creator. drom is born from a simple observation: every time you create a new OCaml project, you spend time searching and...
View ArticleUse system libraries with dune runtest
Is there a way to let dune runtest --verbose --for-release-of-packages=gen ignore the workspace and use system libraries for dependencies it would otherwise try to satisfy by compiling them from...
View ArticleSome dune questions
Hello, How do I tell dune that building the library depends on the preprocessor having been built first? (executable (name prefilter) (modules prefilter) (libraries str) (modes byte)) (library (name...
View ArticleOcamlc -i, ocamldep, and _[> `Foo of 'weak1 ] cause problems with dune...
While updating a personal project to use dune, I started to get syntax errors in the .ml files generated by menhir. The problem occurs because dune calls menhir with the --infer-read-only option,...
View ArticleDune builds in pkgsrs: variables, workspaces, and install dirs
I’m working on packaging a new version of Coq for pkgsrc system (cf. https://www.pkgsrc.org/). The system environment created by pkgsrc is slightly different from that created by e.g. a Debian or...
View ArticleDune no longer generating .merlin files?
I’m currently using Dune 2.8.2 and it seems like it won’t generate .merlin files anymore. My .merlin files for a project are several months old and if I delete them, I can’t seem to get dune to...
View ArticleRunning subset of alcotests / without running tests for dependencies
If I download dune-starter and run the tests like this, I get some output, as expected: $ dune runtest -f run_tests alias test/runtest Testing `proj'. This run has ID...
View ArticleDune fails to compile my library with pyml
So I was trying to use pyml in my project GitHub - thierry-martinez/pyml: OCaml bindings for Python and it turns out that just adding pyml to dune libraries makes my project crash on linking with :...
View ArticleSee warnings in libs when building in watch mode
Hi, I created a project based on Spin CLI template, so I have a bin module depending on lib and I noticed that when building in watch mode (dune build -p #{self.name} --watch), warnings from the lib...
View ArticlePlan for Dune 3.0
The Dune team has started planning the next major release and we would like to share and discuss the current plan with the community. We expect to release Dune 3 in August 2021. Please have a look and...
View ArticleDune problems using Dynlink plugins
Hi, I’m trying to migrate an OCamlbuild project to Dune, but I’m having trouble building a plugin (for Dynlink). The idea is that the plugin adds a GTK UI, using lablgtk. This must not be linked into...
View ArticleCram - Tests on Short Notice
Does it seem like writing unit tests is endlessly boring and time consuming? Does your test suite require constant attention and tweaking, and yet the stream of bugs never seems to end? I feel the...
View ArticleHooking into the Dune resolution process
Is there any way to programmatically access build artefacts constructed by dune, maybe perhaps by hooking into dune directly? I’d like to access, for example, the cmi/cmo file produced by a given...
View ArticleDune what is the difference between library and tests stanza?
In the writing and running tests section of the dune docs. For ppx_inline_test the following stanza is suggested. (library (name foo) (preprocess (pps ppx_inline_test))) However, I’ve also encountered...
View ArticleDune + rewriting of typed tree + dependencies: how to do better?
I have the following setup a rewriter that does typechecking under the hood a module A in a library a module B in a library, which is preprocessed by rewriter above and which depends on A I want to...
View ArticleRecursive dependencies for C stubs with dune
How does a library B express its internal dependency on library A, so that a user C can use B without knowing about A? The case at hand is ocaml-ctypes, which depends on ocaml-integers. A public...
View ArticleDynamic loading a library with Fl_dynload
I am trying to dynamically load a library (noted as A below) in my non-public application that uses dune as the build tool. I have the following modules: lib: links library A statically register:...
View ArticleCreating generic rules in dune
I have a dune file where I have several rules of the form (rule (target lambda.ml) (deps lambda.sk) (action (run necro-ml -o %{target} %{deps}))) where only the name lambda changes. Is it possible to...
View ArticleI can't install ocaml-windows for cross-compiling
Hello, I need your help, when I execute in my terminal : opam install ocaml-windows64 opam install ocaml-windows64 -y The following actions will be performed: ∗ install ocaml-windows64 4.11.1...
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