General hints

General hints

Compiling programs that use OcamlNet

Thanks to the findlib package manager it is quite simple to compile programs that use OcamlNet components. For example, to byte-compile sample.ml that uses the netstring component, one has to execute the following command:

ocamlfind ocamlc -package netstring -c sample.ml

For the final link step, the command looks like this one:

ocamlfind ocamlc -package netstring -linkpkg -o sample sample.cmo

You can get more information about findlib here, and in the quickstart guide.

How to reduce the size of executables

This was a problem for ocamlnet up to version 0.95. In 0.96, the big conversion tables are usually loaded at runtime when needed, so the old tricks are no longer applicable.