ocp-build, a build system for OCaml applications
ocp-build is a build system for OCaml application, based on simple descriptions of packages. ocp-build combines the descriptions of packages, and optimize the parallel compilation of files depending on the number of cores and the automatically-infered dependencies between source files.
Resources
| Sources | Source archives (last release is 1.99.9-beta since March 11, 2015) |
| User Manual | A preliminary user manual |
An example of description file for ocp-build (with the .ocp extension):
begin library "ocplib-system" files = [ "file.ml" "process.ml" "stubs.c" ] requires = [ "unix" ] end begin program "file-checker" files = [ "checkFiles.ml" "checkLexer.mll" "checkParser.mly" "checkMain.ml" ] requires = [ "ocplib-system" ] end
Invoking ocp-build is as follows (use -help to get more information):
| ocp-build root | Set project root directory |
| ocp-build configure | Configure project options |
| ocp-build project | Query project information |
| ocp-build build | Build project |
| ocp-build install | Install packages |
| ocp-build test | Build and run package tests |
| ocp-build clean | Clean build artefacts |
| ocp-build query | Query environment information |
| ocp-build uninstall | Uninstall packages |