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While comfort-watching the indomitable Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in The Body in the Library, it occurred to me that Miss Marple would have been a formidable debugger. Since returning from holiday one, two, three weeks ago, I’ve been mostly straightening out and finalising the final Relocatable OCaml PR. A frustrating task, because I know these things will take weeks and have little to show for at the end, so one spends the entire time feeling it should be finished by now. It’s just about there, when this little testsuite failure popped up:

OCaml Multicore opened up a new world of performance for developers, something that Nomadic Labs has tested with great results. Rather than…

Distributing OCaml software on opam is great (if I dare say so myself), but sometimes you need to provide your tools to an audience outside of the OCaml community, or just without recompilations or in a simpler way. However, just distributing the locally generated binaries requires that the users ha...

Recently, I have been experimenting wiht OCaml / MSVC running on Windows 7 64bit. I have mainly followed what the OCaml’s README.win32 was saying and I learned some NSIS tricks. The result of this experiment is the following two (rather big) windows binaries : ocaml-trunk-64-installer.exe (92 MB) ...