[ANN] OCaml+opam Images for Docker for Windows Hello all, I’m glad to announce the availability of OCaml and opam native Windows Container images for Docker for Windows. This is the result of my hard work at Tarides, with precious help from @dra27 , @talex5 , @avsm , and the rest of the team. They ca…

For those curious about the history of this work, @Rucikir began this journey back in 2020 with an internship with @Zimm_i48 and @yurug . That internship helped us discover all the intricacies of what was required for Windows support, and then @Rucikir joined Tarides and has subsequently been hackin…

I just tried it – nice! Thanks a lot for this, I can only imagine it must have been painstaking work to get everything working. Cross-referencing https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-for-windows-installation-confusion/ I think these docker images could/should be recommended as THE way to get started …

If anyone gets the chance to try out the VS Code container extension with these Windows images, that might be a fine thing to add to the recommendation list. The base images are ~8-10GB in size, so this isn’t a lightweight option, but it is one that should be fairly well integrated with VSCode/Wind…

Thanks everyone for making this happen! This was a really huge step. And I now have a relatively painless but lengthy Windows install procedure on top of your OCaml+Opam images. I’ll try to publish it late next week or the week after, but in summary after you: Git clone a project and Run a PowerS…

@jbeckford this looks excellent. If you have time for it would you also be able to add or link to instructions on how to install git and where to get windows VMs. A long time ago I managed, under the strict supervision of @dra27 , to get myself an (opamless) vm setup to test some of my software bu…

Testing + documenting the VM install may take a bit of time but it sounds worthwhile. Will look into it.

@dbuenzli I’ll send out an [ANN] for my Windows distribution in the next day or so but here are the manual (not Vagrant) Windows VM instructions: Windows 10 on macOS/Linux with VirtualBox . The VM was a great suggestion; using a VM uncovered many bugs I had not noticed on my own machines. Thanks!

[image] jbeckford: @Rucikir @avsm Key question before I release it: Are we willing to add MSYS2 builds to OCaml CI? It is in no one’s interest to release a MSYS2 backed OCaml distribution if we are committed long-term to Cygwin! My main reason for leaning on MSYS2 is because of Cygwin’s frequent…

[image] dra27: so it’s always felt that this about maintaining Cygwin and MSYS2 (rather than Cygwin or MSYS2) I do think it is Cygwin or MSYS rather than Cygwin and MSYS. Simply put, there is no reason to use Cygwin at all. I realize it will take a bit of time to establish that fact, but the …

[image] jbeckford: Simply put, there is no reason to use Cygwin at all. Sorry if this was discussed above, but: have you tried/been able to build OCaml from source with one or both of mingw64/msvc toolchains on MSYS2? Cheers, Nicolas

# [ANN] OCaml+Opam Images for Docker for Windows

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samsonluk January 2, 2022, 9:34am 15

Done here

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