[MirageOS-devel] So you want to build C stubs...

[David Kaloper Meršinjak <dk505@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

So I mostly switched from Oasis to Topkg. Which means that I had to
stare at the raw OCamlbuild for what it is, far longer than I
intended. And this got me increasingly tired of all the shenanigans
one has to play, to get even the regular stubs to build nicely, let
alone to do a Mirage lib.

After a couple of false starts, I made a little OCamlbuild plugin [1]
to do the right thing. It contains the incantations for linking
archives to stubs, usable anywhere, it adds pkg-config support, and it
can build Mirage projects hands-free [2].

I tested it by deleting a bunch of myocamlbuild code from a bunch of
random projects, and adjusting their _tags. Surprisingly, the ruse
seems to work.

Stuff like static Ctypes support is on the table, but as future work.
I'd like to get this out of the door.

Last-minute feedback is welcome.


Best,
David

[1] https://pqwy.github.io/ocb-stubblr/doc/Ocb_stubblr.html
[2] https://pqwy.github.io/ocb-stubblr/doc/Ocb_stubblr.html#2_Mirage

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