Hello everyone!
I’m trying to install OCaml on Windows using diskuv installer, but the installer install everything in the C disk by default. As i don’t hav enough space in it, i wanted to know if it’s possible to install it on a different Disk like the (D disk) ?
You can use a different location by using the --verbose --prefix D:\blahblah command line option of the installer. That and other options are available with --help.
If that isn’t working for you, file an issue at https://github.com/diskuv/dkml-installer-ocaml/issues/new
Where can i use this different location command line, because the installer (exe) runs directly without giving any chance to type anything.
We are having a communication difficulty. Can you categorize yourself into one of the following two categories?
You are familiar with the terms “change directory” and “directory listing”.
The following makes sense to you:
cd) to your browser’s download folderdir) to find the specific filename you downloadedsetup-X.Y.Z.exe --verbose --prefix D:\blahblah from that directory, replacing setup-X.Y.Z.exe with the specific filename you found in the last step, and D:\blahblah with a suitable directory on your D driveYou are not familiar with the terms “change directory” and “directory listing”. That’s fine! Since day-to-day use of OCaml requires familiarity with those terms (more generally, the “command line”), you should pause briefly and find some material before completing the installation.
I don’t know the best material for that though, so please respond if you are in Category 2 and perhaps one of the professors or teachers on this discuss forum can point you to material they use with their students.
Thank you so much for your detailed response!
I ran the command setup-diskuv-ocaml-windows_x86_64-1.2.0 --verbose --prefix D:\OCaml
but it is still being installed in the wrong drive and not in the one i have specified in the command you have just given me.
I have only the uninstall.exe and app.ico files that are being installed in the D:\OCaml folder.
If you let it continue you’ll see that OCaml is installed in your D: drive but the prerequisites (Visual Studio and Git) have their own installers that install to default locations (C:).
Can you make an issue? Not for your benefit but for every other first-time user. 90+% of them ask+search questions in the Issues (Issues · diskuv/dkml-installer-ocaml · GitHub) because that is what the installer tells them to do.
I have another folder called DiskuvOcaml that is roughly 2.5 Go that is being installed in C.
If i have already (Git and VS), is it gonna install them again, if that’s not the case, can i install VS on its own and then install the OCaml Windows installer?
