[Teaching] Getting OCaml set up on a mac

[Yaron Minsky]

Does depext do anything on a mac?  On redhat? Or is it Debian only?
On Jan 22, 2015 10:03 PM, "Louis Gesbert" <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com>
wrote:

> Just released 0.2 which should fix both issues (opam tuareg mode and
> stalling with vim)
>
> > It would be good to know what we have there now.  It seems like a
> > minimum should be:
> >
> > - tuareg
> > - merlin
> > - ocp-indent
> > - utop
> >
> > all read to go in emacs.  Getting vim and sublime text support would
> > be lovely too, but I think less critical.  What does user-setup
> > already support?
>
> Needs more testing, but we do have those ; vim support also, but it's more
> lightly tested.
> I didn't figure how to configure Sublime yet.
>
> > Interesting. Concretely, what would would depext do in this context?
> > I did a fresh install of a number of packages on my mac, and I didn't
> > need much else, but I may have already had the dependencies in place
> > via brew.
>
> Not sure, but you can use `opam depext -l` to simply show the currently
> required external packages.
>
> The one that bites most often on .deb distributions is the lack of m4,
> which is required by ocamlfind. It gets much more complicated as soon as
> you want to install e.g. gtk stuff, of course (ocaml-top...).
>
> Best,
> Louis
>
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