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OCaml Extended standard Library - ExtLib
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version,,
* with the special exception on linking described in file LICENSE.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
What is ExtLib ?
ExtLib is a set of additional useful functions and modules for OCaml. Current goal is to maintain compatibility, new software is encouraged to not use extlib since stdlib is now seeing many additions and improvements which make many parts of extlib obsolete. For tail-recursion safety consider using other libraries e.g. containers.
Online API documentation : https://ygrek.org/p/extlib/doc/
Dependencies
ocaml >= 4.02
cppo - enables conditional compilation to ensure compatibility with various OCaml versions
optional:
ocamlfind >= 1.5.1 - for make install
dune - for dune build
Installation
opam install extlib or follow the manual instructions below.
Build with dune:
dune build
or with Makefile:
make minimal=1 build
make install
This will build and install bytecode and native libraries.
On bytecode-only architecture run
make minimal=1 all
make install
minimal=1 will exclude from build several modules (namely Base64UnzipUCharUTF8) potentially conflicting with other well-established OCaml libraries. If your code is expecting to find these modules in extlib - omit this parameter during build to produce the full library.
Usage
Generate and read the documentation.
Release
Check for changes in stdlib (e.g. with ocaml check_stdlib.ml)