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protz / ocaml-installer

The official windows installer (built using NSIS) for OCaml
http://protz.github.com/ocaml-installer/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add Merlin to the installer #33

Open romildo opened 9 years ago

romildo commented 9 years ago

Merlin is an editor-independent tool to ease the development of programs in OCaml. It aims to provide features available in modern IDEs such as:

It may be very helpful to have Merlin installed with OCaml so that one can easily use Emacs+Tuareg+Merlin (or any other editor supported by Merlin) while developing on Windows. In particular it would make it easier for my students to set up OCaml for studying functional programming.

Please, add Merlin to ocaml-installer.

msprotz commented 8 years ago

"opam add merlin" works for "32-bit ocaml + cygwin-32 opam", but not for "64-bit ocaml + 64-bit opam"

qdwang commented 7 years ago

Is merlin still incompatible with 64bit version?

msprotz commented 7 years ago

At this stage we're waiting on proper OPAM support for Windows, which should hopefully happen early next year, so yeah, still not working, sadly.

qdwang commented 7 years ago

Is it possible that OPAM can natively support Windows(with out cygwin)? A lot of packages is based on *unix system features.

https://github.com/fdopen/opam-repository-mingw

I found that this repo‘s OPAM can successfully install a lot of packages like merlin, lwt and something else. support list here

Don't know what modification did he do to the OPAM. May be a little help for you guys.

msprotz commented 7 years ago

Yes, we are aware of this repository. Until recently, Andreas hadn't released his patches to OPAM, so I didn't want to redistribute an arbitrary binary. Now he has released his patches to OPAM, but these are no longer maintained, and an OPAM on Windows effort is currently happening in Cambridge Labs, so our best bet is to wait a little bit longer and see what comes out of it.

Note that the installer's OPAM points to Andreas' repository by default.

qdwang commented 7 years ago

So that's it...hope that the Windows version can be released as soon as possible.