I’m pleased to announce the release 1.1.0 of DKML (Diskuv OCaml) at https://github.com/diskuv/dkml-installer-ocaml/releases/tag/v1.1.0_r2 . As usual the DKML distribution supports the Visual Studio compiler on Windows. After the 90-minute installer finishes you will have a working environment where d…

[image] jbeckford: After the 90-minute installer finishes you will have a working environment where dune build and utop work immediately. I don’t use Windows for development, but I hope this is a typo and you meant 90 seconds, instead of 90 minutes?

[image] edwin: I don’t use Windows for development, but I hope this is a typo and you meant 90 seconds, instead of 90 minutes? Definitely not a typo. Installing Visual Studio (the C compiler and Windows SDK) by itself takes 10 minutes, and that is just one of many components installed (MSYS2,…

winget This is the first release of DKML in winget, the (new) Windows Package Manager. Windows Package Manager winget command-line tool is bundled with Windows 11 and modern versions of Windows 10 by default as the App Installer. If you are running an earlier version of Windows and the App Instal…

setup-dkml 1.2.0 How to check if you are using setup-dkml? You have a ci/setup-dkml folder. The new version of setup-dkml CI goes along with the DKML 1.1.0 release (yes, it would be nice if the version numbers were in sync). You will get CI for Windows MSVC with OCaml 4.14.0 (among other things) wh…

It would be nice to understand exactly where the time goes. Linux users compile from scratch and yet don’t take anywhere near as long. Aside from VS, what else is causing the major delays? Is it msys2? Is it the msys2 translation layer slowing everything down?

[ANN] Diskuv OCaml 1.1.0 - Windows, winget, setup-dkml

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jbeckford December 30, 2022, 9:15pm 3

Definitely not a typo. Installing Visual Studio (the C compiler and Windows SDK) by itself takes 10 minutes, and that is just one of many components installed (MSYS2, opam init, OCaml compiler, etc.). 90 seconds will never be a goal.

Improving windows install time

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[ANN] Diskuv OCaml 1.1.0 - Windows, winget, setup-dkml

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