dune-configurator - Helper library for gathering system configurationdune-configurator is a small library that helps writing OCaml scripts that test features available on the system, in order to generate config.h files for instance.
Among other things, dune-configurator allows one to:
pkg-config#define from OCaml header filesconfig.h fileThe entry point for this library is Configurator.V1.
The following happens in a dune project that contains some C code that needs to link against libpng.
The following program (discover/discover.ml) uses dune-configurator to query pkg-config and create cflags.sexp and libs.sexp:
let () =
Configurator.V1.main ~name:"libpng"
(fun c ->
let pkg_config =
match Configurator.V1.Pkg_config.get c with
| Some p -> p
| None -> failwith "Cannot find pkg-config"
in
let conf = Configurator.V1.Pkg_config.query ~package:"libpng" in
Configurator.V1.Flags.write_sexp "cflags.sexp" conf.cflags;
Configurator.V1.Flags.write_sexp "libs.sexp" conf.libs)It can be built using the following discover/dune file:
(executable (name discover) (libraries dune-configurator)) (rule (targets cflags.sexp libs.sexp) (action (run ./discover.exe)))
And used when building the C code in the following dune file:
(library (name png) (foreign_stubs (language c) (names bindings) (flags :standard (:include discover/cflags.sexp))) (c_library_flags :standard (:include discover/libs.sexp)))