OCPWin, an OCaml distribution for Windows

Download and Install

Find the most recent version for your system (64bits works only on 64bits Windows, 32bits works on both 32 and 64 bit windows), and then follow the step by step instructions below.

Usage

From 2016, OCPWin is managed by a tool called ocpwin.exe. The tool was mostly introduced to avoid the PATH corrupting bug in NSIS installer.

Thanks to this tool, it is now possible to install multiple versions of OCPWin at the same time on a computer, and to use ocpwin.exe to switch between them.

$ ocpwin.exe -list
4.01.0+ocp1-msvc64-20160113
4.01.0+ocp1-msvc32-20160113
4.01.0+ocp1-full-mingw64-20160113
$ ocpwin.exe -switch 4.01.0+ocp1-full-mingw64-20160113

Unfortunately, ocpwin.exe cannot change the PATH in the current shell, so after using ocpwin -switch, you should start a new terminal to enjoy the new settings.

However, it is possible to use wrappers to avoid this problem. If you use:

ocpwin.exe -multi-switch true

ocpwin.exe will create a directory containing wrappers for all the OCaml commands, and add it in top of the PATH. These wrappers will always select the current switch OCaml commands, so you that any call to ocpwin.exe -switch will be immediatly seen in the current terminal.

It is possible to remove these wrappers by calling:

ocpwin.exe -multi-switch false

Components

OCPWin installs the following software:

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