A change made to OCaml before 4.13 was branched slowed down the Windows build, but the fix (although ready for review) was deferred until during the beta cycle. The story of the fix is long and not entirely relevant, but the solution is that there is now a one-file C program in runtime/ which forms part of the build system and so has to be built with a host ("build") C compiler. There should be an elegant solution to this in future when the OCaml tree itself natively supports cross-compilation, but in the meantime we're proposing inserting three variable hooks which ocaml-freestanding (and other cross-compiling setups) can use.
hannesm
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3 years ago
A change made to OCaml before 4.13 was branched slowed down the Windows build, but the fix (although ready for review) was deferred until during the beta cycle. The story of the fix is long and not entirely relevant, but the solution is that there is now a one-file C program in
runtime/which forms part of the build system and so has to be built with a host ("build") C compiler. There should be an elegant solution to this in future when the OCaml tree itself natively supports cross-compilation, but in the meantime we're proposing inserting three variable hooks which ocaml-freestanding (and other cross-compiling setups) can use.This can be tested with
cc @kit-ty-kate