[wg-windows] Improving the state of OCaml on Windows

Bernhard Schommer bernhardschommer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 09:22:08 BST 2015


2015-06-02 10:01 GMT+02:00 Alain Frisch <alain.frisch at lexifi.com>:

>
> Does one need a new API, or fix Unix.create_process and co?
>
> Creat Process works the intended way under windows and also does the
necessary quoting.


> Do you know why ocamlbuild uses bash instead of Unix to run external
> commands?
>
> I think its because ocamlbuild was intended to also work when the unix
library is not available and some of the commands are not currently not
implemented in the unix library like rm -r or cp -R.

Best Regards,
Bernhard
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