Installing OCaml and Camlp5 to compile GeneWeb

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Compiling GeneWeb requires the installation of OCaml and Camlp5. Nowadays, the simplest method is to install them through OPAM (OCaml preferred package manager) that is able to manage multiple versions of OCaml on the same machine. Note that Camlp5 must be installed for each version of the compiler.

Without OPAM, the old way of doing this was to install/compile OCaml and Camlp5 all by yourself.

When Ocaml and camlp5 are installed, you can clone repository to compile GeneWeb.

Don’t forget that if your base has been built under an old version, it won't be compatible with bases built with new version: one should recover through the .gw format to migrate from one to the other.

For GeneWeb 7

Under Linux

This has been tested on a Debian in March 2018 (debian-9.3.0-i386-netinst.iso).

To install Opam/OCaml (4.05)/Camlp5 (7.05)/ocamlfind (1.7.3): 

apt-get install opam
opam init
opam update
opam switch 4.05.0
eval `opam config env`
opam install -y ocamlfind camlp5

If ocamlfind install fails, try installing the packages pkg-config or m4 from your distribution.

Under OS X

This has been tested on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 in February 2018.

The best way to install Opam/OCaml is to install it with Homebrew, a package management software. You have to install first homebrew in a Terminal window by typing or pasting this command: 

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

If this gives the error “Illegal variable name.”, switch to Bash.

Once homebrew is installed you can easily install Opam in Terminal application with these commands: 

brew install opam 
opam init
opam update
opam switch 4.05

and then OCaml: 

opam install -y camlp5 ocamlfind
eval `opam config env`

Before compiling GeneWeb you need to update Bash with Homebrew in a Terminal window: 

brew install bash

Do not take into account the caveats about Bash path. You can now download and compile GeneWeb.

Under Windows using Cygwin

This has been tested on Windows 7 x64 and x86 in February 2018.

If you have Windows Powershell (embedded in Windows since XP SP2), this batch script will download/compile/install Cygwin/Opam/OCaml/Camlp5/Ocamfind/GeneWeb for you. You can download the script copying this line on a Windows prompt (command line) with administrator rights: 

powershell.exe -Command (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://gist.github.com/a2line/f134c88c80eafcf0411b38e32a0a7128/raw/','opamwin.bat')

Then just launch the downloaded script typing opamwin in the same console to install everything.

Without Powershell, you have to download the batch file opamwin.bat and the right Cygwin setup x64 or x86 manually. Launch the script under a prompt with administrator rights and having Cygwin setup in the same directory.

GeneWeb 6.xx with OPAM

Under Linux

Sources of GeneWeb 6.04, 6.05 and 6.08 can be build easily with Opam switching to OCaml 3.12.1 (see #435). On Debian: 

opam switch 3.12.1
eval `opam config env`
opam install -y camlp5 ocamlfind

When using Opam on old sources, we need to replace the path to Camlp5 CAMLP5D=+camlp5 in tools/Makefile.inc with a sed command after configuring Makefile: 

./configure
sed -i 's|CAMLP5D=+camlp5|CAMLP5D=~/.opam/3.12.1/lib/camlp5|' tools/Makefile.inc
make
make distrib

You can check the path to Camlp5 with camlp5 -where or ocamlfind query camlp5, for this exemple camlp5 lib is in /root/.opam/3.12.1/lib/camlp5/.

Under OSX

Apply the same process as with Linux, with the exception of the sed command: 

./configure
sed -i .bak 's|CAMLP5D=+camlp5|CAMLP5D=~/.opam/3.12.1/lib/camlp5|' tools/Makefile.inc
make
make distrib

Under Windows

Previous chapter for Linux works for Windows under Cygwin modifying a few steps, OCaml version name is: 

opam switch 3.12.1+mingw32

Using relative path or /cygdrive/… don’t work, we must target camlp5 lib using its full Windows path that depends of where is your home directory in Cygwin installation: 

sed -i 's|CAMLP5D=.*|CAMLP5D=c:\\cygwin\\home\\user\\.opam\\3.12.1+mingw32\\lib\\camlp5|' tools/Makefile.inc

Building version 6.07 like this also works under Windows.

Clone repository and compile GeneWeb

GeneWeb uses the version control software Git. Its repository is hosted on Github at https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb. To compile GeneWeb, you need OCaml. 

git clone https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb
cd geneweb
./configure && make opt && make distrib

If GeneWeb compilation fails, look at continuous integration tools to see if latest build is passing on your plateform.

Build options

./configure options: 

 -h|--help
     show this help
 --api
     build the API
 -d|--debug
     add debugging symbols to the build command
 -i|--interactive
     run configure interactively
 -s|--static
     statically link libraries
 -we|--warn-error
     treat warnings as errors

For example, if you want debug symbols/warnings use ./configure -d -we then you can launch gwd adding OCAMLRUNPARAM=b to trigger the printing of a stack backtrace when an uncaught exception aborts the program.

Build GeneWeb gui

Since version 6.xx, an user friendly GTK gui helps managing gwd and gwsetup, it can be build with lablgtk installed. 

 opam install lablgtk
 ./configure
 make everything

GeneWeb/OCaml/Camlp5 compability chart

GeneWeb Ocaml Camlp4/5
1.07-2.07 2.01-2.02 p4*
3.01-3.03 2.01-2.04 p4*
3.04-3.07 2.01-3.00 p4*
3.08-4.01 3.00 p4*
4.02 3.01 p4*
4.03 3.02 p4*
4.04-4.07 3.04
4.08-4.09 3.06 p4*
4.10 3.08
5.00-5.01
5.02 3.11 p5 6.02.1**
6.00-6.08 3.12.1 p5 6.04-6.16
7 master 4.05 p5 6.13-7.05

* “same version number” for camlp4 as Ocaml version number

** Dominique Deram, compilation under Windows XP (jan. 2011)



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