https://github.com/vouillon/ocaml-android

Ocaml cross-compiler for Android
https://github.com/vouillon/ocaml-android

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Ocaml cross-compiler for Android

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vouillon/ocaml-android
• Owner: vouillon
• Created: 2013-01-09T15:58:39.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-10-10T21:11:52.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-26T00:01:43.412Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 256 KB
• Stars: 43
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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ocaml-android

=============

Ocaml cross-compiler for Android.

On a 64bit Debian or Ubuntu installation, you need to install package

`gcc-multilib`: we have to build 32 bit OCaml binaries when targeting

32 bit architectures.

Follow the following steps to compile:

- download the Android NDK and the OCaml source code;

- edit `Makefile.config`;

- run `make`.

For convenience, binaries (`ocamlc`, `ocamlopt`, ...) are put both in

   `$ANDROID_BINDIR`

prefixed by `arm-linux-androideabi-`, and in

   `$ANDROID_BINDIR/arm-linux-androideabi`

unprefixed.

The Android OCaml runtime `ocamlrun` is in directory

   `$ANDROID_PREFIX/bin/`.

There are a few pitfalls regarding bytecode programs.  First, if you

link them without the `-custom` directive, you will need to use

`ocamlrun` explicitly to run them. Second, the `ocamlmklib` command

produces shared libraries `dll*.so` which are not usable. Thus, you

need to use the `-custom` directive to successfully link bytecode

programs that uses libraries with mixed C / OCaml code. Shared

libraries should eventually be disabled, but at the moment, the

`ocamlbuild` plugin of `oasis` requires them to be created.

Many thanks to Keigo Imai for his OCaml 3.12 cross-compiler patches.