I’ve been using Arch Linux as my Linux distribution of choice for the last few years, but over the last few months, I’ve been noticing a more-than-negligible number of issues with the OCaml ecosystem, especially when it comes to packages that need to interact with non-OCaml libraries. Is there a pre…

You may find that more or less all major Unix OSes seem to work quite well when you’re very much inside the OPAM ecosystem and that things get shakier when you have to deal with third party libraries. It may or may not be easier on Ubuntu LTS. I myself tend to work on a Mac, with MacPorts as my sou…

I do use macOS with homebrew myself for local development, but I do some web development (mainly to use web-based UI) and it’s useful to have a lightweight Linux VM do deployments on. Unfortunately, it seems like both Arch and Alpine (which would have been my go-to lightweight Linux environments) ar…

We use Cent7 internally, and I personally use the latest Fedora at home, which so far has worked for me without issue. y

I use Red Hat Linux. Absolutely no issues so far.

I’m pretty happy with Debian testing for personal uses (which include OCaml).

[image] basus: I’ve been using Arch Linux as my Linux distribution of choice for the last few years, but over the last few months, I’ve been noticing a more-than-negligible number of issues with the OCaml ecosystem, especially when it comes to packages that need to interact with non-OCaml librar…

I think getting Arch in would be a good thing from the point of view of enhancing portability, so I hope @basus is in a position to contribute that dockerfile.

I would be interested in contributing Arch support to Ocaml-Dockerfile. I don’t know much about Docker though, so it might take me a while to get up to speed with it. I might try to use the most recent Alpine for my immediate purposes.

You may be able to get what you want built by looking at existing examples and looking for Arch docker images.

I couldn’t get owl to compile on debian, due to missing headers for Lapack.:roll_eyes:

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blez September 27, 2018, 7:07pm 16

Ok, a bit of a self-plug but I wrote up my experiences building ocaml from scratch. I used CentOS 7 but it should work on any Linux.

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