OCaml Extended standard Library - ExtLib

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with the special exception on linking described in file LICENSE.

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What is ExtLib ?

ExtLib is a set of additional useful functions and modules for OCaml. Current goal is to maintain compatibility, new software is encouraged to not use extlib since stdlib is now seeing many additions and improvements which make many parts of extlib obsolete. For tail-recursion safety consider using other libraries e.g. containers.

Project page : https://github.com/ygrek/ocaml-extlib

Online API documentation : https://ygrek.org/p/extlib/doc/

Dependencies

• ocaml >= 4.02
• cppo - enables conditional compilation to ensure compatibility with various OCaml versions

optional:

• ocamlfind >= 1.5.1 - for make install
• dune - for dune build

Installation

opam install extlib or follow the manual instructions below.

Build with dune:

dune build

or with Makefile:

make minimal=1 build
make install

This will build and install bytecode and native libraries.

On bytecode-only architecture run

make minimal=1 all
make install

minimal=1 will exclude from build several modules (namely Base64 Unzip UChar UTF8) potentially conflicting with other well-established OCaml libraries. If your code is expecting to find these modules in extlib - omit this parameter during build to produce the full library.

Usage

Generate and read the documentation.

Release

• Check for changes in stdlib (e.g. with ocaml check_stdlib.ml)
• Update sw_test_all target for new OCaml release
• make sw_test_all
• Review git log and update CHANGES
• Update version in Makefile
• Commit
• make release
• upload tarball and make release on github
• opam publish

Contributors

• Nicolas Cannasse ncannasse@motion-twin.com
• Brian Hurt brian.hurt@qlogic.com
• Yamagata Yoriyuki yori@users.sourceforge.net
• Markus Mottl markus.mottl@gmail.com
• Jesse Guardiani jesse@wingnet.net
• John Skaller skaller@users.sourceforge.net
• Bardur Arantsson bardur@scientician.net
• Janne Hellsten jjhellst@gmail.com
• Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com
• ygrek ygrek@autistici.org
• Gabriel Scherer gabriel.scherer@gmail.com
• Pietro Abate pietro.abate@pps.jussieu.fr

License

See LICENSE