How to install ocaml on Mac

Learning
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If you want to play with the language, I would recommend:

opam install utop

which will install a very nice interpreter for ocaml. Then you can do:

utop

and start typing in OCaml expressions:

utop # 1 + 4;;
- : int = 5

For compiling OCaml applications I would recommend the dune build system.

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See also: https://dev.realworldocaml.org/install.html

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If you just want to see if your OCaml toplevel is working you can do a quick test from the terminal:

$ ocaml
        OCaml version 4.06.0
# 1 + 4;;
- : int = 5
# exit 0;;
$

(The ;; token tells the toplevel to evaluate what you’ve typed since the last evaluation.)

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hi, can you help me? I use Mac with the system 10.13.6. But I can’t install Graphics package, how can I install it? I have tried lots of methods, but failed…thanks

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how does one make sure one has installed the newest version of ocaml?

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Install any version of opam you like (from brew or macports) and then you can use opam to build the latest release version (which is 4.08.1).