Error installing ropc

[prashast94]

So I'm trying to install ropc on ubuntu. As you had mentioned I'm having error in compiling bap-0.4. When I try to make it after installing all the dependencies that had been mentioned in the install file to get I get this error.

Now I'm kinda stumped as to how should I proceed. Kindly let me know what is to be done and are there any workarounds around this?

[KennethAdamMiller]

What it really looks like is that in the ropc distribution the dependencies
were packaged in with the source for the target. It's trying to build those
dependencies first, trying with bigint-3.12, but failing for whatever
reason. It's not going to use the newest bap until you refactor it to do so
(which is going to be a lot of work), and the latest bap uses opam. So what
you might try doing is refactoring the makefile to skip building all of
those dependencies locally (just delete the folders inside ropc) and
install them via opam. Use the opam based ocaml installation with ocamlfind
to point the compiler to those appropriate packages. Hopefully if you're
willing to go this far, you'll see that using opam for this project would
be good too-you can tell it what packages and their versions that you need
and it will remove the need for you to manage that version within that one
project.

In any case, the specific reason for the compilation failure is that the
warnings are promoted to errors with -warn-error that's on the command line
that you can see. If you take that off, you'll probably get a bit further.
Or you have to take the advice of the compiler (always a good choice, but
might result in unnecessary work if you're going to use opam for those
dependencies).

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:41 AM, prashast94 notifications@github.com
wrote:

So I'm trying to install ropc on ubuntu. As you had mentioned I'm having
error in compiling bap-0.4. When I try to make it after installing all the
dependencies that had been mentioned in the install file to get I get this
error.
[image: ropc]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13796871/9300224/50ca9da8-44e1-11e5-8190-d28b4c406770.png
Now I'm kinda stumped as to how should I proceed. Kindly let me know what
is to be done and are there any workarounds around this?

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[prashast94]

So I was looking through the bigint 3.12 folder that is there in ropc and found this but now the issue is that this command "./configure -no-shared-libs" is not recognised as a valid command. I searched a bit further and found this command "./configure --disable-shared" wh

I searched a bit further and found this command "./configure --disable-shared" which I found from GNU's own website and that is not working as well. Could you give any inputs to this? I think if I can get a workaround for this, I might be able to get it up and running.

And I am considering your suggestion to install everything seprately but my main issue is there are certain things for which opam won't have packages even(Eg. bigint 3.12) and even if I do get them I guess I would have to make changes in the makefile to point to these which seems like a gruesome task.

[KennethAdamMiller]

The changes in the makefile should involve the following: comment out the
targets that have it building into subfolders, remove include advice to the
compiler for interfaces or libraries, as well as linker commands. For
everything you remove, make sure the appropriate library and version is
installed in opam. Point the compilation toward your opam package instead,
with -packs and maybe includes and linker advice. You should be
able to get bigint at whatever version you need, just tell opam you need
that version in your .opam file. The makefile should call ocamlfind ocamlc
or ocamlfind whatever, so that tool makes things a lot easier.
On Aug 20, 2015 2:48 AM, "prashast94" notifications@github.com wrote:

So I was looking through the bigint 3.12 folder that is there in ropc and
found this but now the issue is that this command "./configure
-no-shared-libs" is not recognised as a valid command. I searched a bit
further and found this command "./configure --disable-shared" wh
[image: error]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13796871/9377145/83e2b55a-4733-11e5-9e5e-43fcaa169f22.png
I searched a bit further and found this command "./configure
--disable-shared" which I found from GNU's own website and that is not
working as well. Could you give any inputs to this? I think if I can get a
workaround for this, I might be able to get it up and running.
[image: error1]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13796871/9377251/a43e8364-4734-11e5-9e94-75eda49deaf2.png
And I am considering your suggestion to install everything seprately but
my main issue is there are certain things for which opam won't have
packages even(Eg. bigint 3.12) and even if I do get them I guess I would
have to make changes in the makefile to point to these which seems like a
gruesome task.

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