[opam-devel] [MirageOS-devel] Cross-compiling OCaml, Mirage OS for rumprun, OPAM integration

[Peter Zotov]

On 2015-05-19 17:39, Martin Lucina wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19.05.2015 at 17:15, Peter Zotov wrote:
>> On 2015-05-19 16:58, Martin Lucina wrote:
>> >This begs the question, why did you use the approach of building the
>> >cross-compiler as a normal OPAM package, rather than as a compiler
>> >package?
>> 
>> Because the cross-compiler needs a normal compiler (and its runtime)
>> to build and execute. Because many packages (from camlp4 to ppx)
>> depend on build-time components that execute on the host arch.
>> You also still have to add suffix to the version number, or else
>> there would be a conflict (I think).
> 
> Wouldn't the presence of an external (non-OPAM) compiler on the host be
> enough to execute the cross-compiler and build-time code from packages?
> That's more or less what your patches already do to bootstrap the
> compiler...

Yes. In fact, it works with the OPAM switch `system`. One problem is
that it only works if the bitness of host/target matches due to
a compiler issue, and another is that some people, like me, do not
use system compilers at all.

But, it does cover your use case anyway.

> 
> Martin

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Peter Zotov