maemo.org - Talk - [Announce] OCaml for N900

I have OCaml as our my language during this term's course, so how could I have not tried running it on my N900.

What works:

OCaml itself
rlwrap

What I plan to add

libounit-ocaml-dev
ocamlfind

Known bugs:

you need fix the permission for executables. I'm not eager of 2 hours of rebuilding, so I don't know when I'll fix it.
unless we have a dedicated, optified development set for N900, we'll have to use a chroot jail.

What will never work:

this will never hit extras-devel (unless I'll be able to use Qemu 0.13 from Hathor in the autobuilder, which I really doubt)

Quick instructions:

1. Set up a development chroot. Use an image from here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86158
I suggest you unpack it. I'll assume that the root of the sdk image is now at /home/sdk

2. Prepare the SDK. (you may have to setup your own resolv.conf - I don't know whether it's needed or not, I did it anyway)

Code:

sudo chroot /home/sdk

mkdir /dev # needed for networking

exit

sudo closechroot /home/sdk

3. Add extras-devel, nokia-binaries, and the following repo to your chrooted sources.list

Code:

deb http://maemo.openrepos.net/marmistrz personal main

4. Install it

Code:

sudo chroot /home/sdk

apt-get update 

apt-get install ocaml

chmod +x /usr/bin/ocaml* # see known bugs

5. Run it

Code:

sudo chroot none /home/sdk ocaml