spotinstall
Many existing OCaml libraries, applications and the compiler itself do not produce or install the annotation files (.annot, .cmt, .cmti, .spot, .spit) which are essential for sub-expression type queries (caml-types.el), definition seaches and code refactoring (TypeRex and OCamlSpotter). If you want to use development tools, you have to:
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Rebuild all the software from the source, adding -annot/-bin-annot option to compiler flags in build scripts i.e. Makefile/OCamlBuild/OMakefile.
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Install those annotation files together with the library objects and signatures. (Require modification of the build scripts)
for all the programs.
SpotInstall provides a post-installation workaround, consists of two things:
- A very small compiler patch which activates -annot and -bin-annot if OCAML_ANNOT environment variable is defined. (You no longder need to add -annot/-bin-annot to the build scripts.)
- A small tool to install annotation files to the library destination directory. (You no longer need to add annotation file installation to the build scripts.)
For the first workaround, you need a small patch available from::
hg clone -b annot https://bitbucket.org/camlspotter/mutated_ocaml
or included in this source package, ocaml-annot-
For the second one, you can use SpotInstall. This tool.
- Published
- 29 Apr 2014
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