I’ve just made a repo containing examples on how to use Buck 2 with OCaml using the ocaml-scripts : OCaml-Buck-2-Examples - GitHub The example projects do also contain Dune files, so you can compare them. All questions, suggestions and corrections are welcome, also for Meta’s OCaml scrips. Why Bu…

Thanks a lot! I wanted to make my workflow independent of dune Can you link me to the examples?

[image] shubhamkumar13: Can you link me to the examples? Which examples do you mean? Mine are here Release-Candidate/OCaml-Buck-2-Examples: This contains documentation and examples on how to use Buck 2 to build OCaml projects. - Codeberg.org or here GitHub - Release-Candidate/OCaml-Buck-2-Exa…

Oh no I was talking about the example where one can build an ocaml project using buck 2 without dune

Well, yes?! As I’ve said, die Dune files are just for comparison purposes, they are not needed when building with Buck 2.

Another stupid thing, is it theoretically possible to have only one BUCK file instead of having a BUCK file in every directory?

That’s not a stupid question at all. You can combine them all in a single BUCK file (using the correct relative paths), I’ve spread them over the directories to make it easier to see what each file does. There is also no need to separate the programming languages, you can build more than one langua…

Oh that’s super cool! Thanks again!

@Release-Candidate I tried to create the third party switch in basic-example repo (I imported all the scripts from ocaml-scripts) and initially I got a list of warnings Running script /home/sk/ocaml-projects/boring_script/OCaml-Buck-2-Examples/basic_example/rules.py... WARNING:root:Could not find f…

[image] shubhamkumar13: I got a list of warnings That’s expected, the rules.py script searches for system libraries in the Opam switch, and does not find them . This can be ignored, as long as there is no “real” OCaml library listed. GitHub - facebook/ocaml-scripts: Set of scripts to help bui…

I found the solution for nushell! : opam env | lines | where $it != is-empty | split column "=" name value | update value { split column ";" path | get path.0 | str trim -c "'"} | reduce -f {} {|it acc| $acc | insert $it.name $it.value} | load-env Thanks for the help the previous error!

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I’m glad to hear that!

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