Dune question: loading plugins, requried for PPX rewriters

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I have a problem with ppx rewriters. In there repo you can find

  • lib/libmain which is a library with logic of rewriter
  • lib/libplugin which is a dynamically loadable plugin for lib/libmain
  • lib/ppxmain which is actual ppx rewriter that uses lib/libmain. It may use lib/libplugin, but indirectly
  • ./main is an executable which is going to preprocess using PPX where rewriter is being built from lib/libmain, lib/libplugin and lib/ppxmain.

The problem. If I write (preprocess (pps ppxmain)) then I’m not linking a plugin, which is not what I want. I don’t know how to specify all three libbraries using (preprocess (pps ...)) dune stanza.

What I tried:

  • I added (kind ppx_rewriter) to all three libraries but dune complained that some of them seems not to be actual rewriters.
  • I tried to specify all three libraries like (pps libmain libplugin ppxmain) but dune complains that some of them aren’t rewriters, and dune is right about that.

Current workaround: create a custom executable which will link all the stuff together using -linkall flag and use it as a custom rewriter.

P.S. I found a manual section about dynamically loading of findlib packages but I’m not sure that this is really related to the topic