There is a more-powerful but slower-to-install version of the installer available as the DkML Installer - Native Code Edition that may require Administrator permissions. This Bytecode edition was only meant for education and has been discontinued due to limited uptake.
DkML Bytecode Edition is an open-source set of software that supports software development in pure OCaml. The Bytecode Edition's strengths are its:
- full compatibility with OCaml standards like Opam, Dune and ocamlfind
- laser focus on "native" development (desktop software, mobile apps and embedded software) through support for the standard native compilers like Visual Studio and Xcode
- ease-of-use through simplified installers and simple productivity commands; high school, college and university students should be able to use it
- security through reproducibility, versioning and from-source builds
These alternatives may be better depending on your use case:
- Developing in a Javascript first environment? Have a look at Esy and Reason
- Developing operating system kernels? Have a look at Mirage OS
- Developing Linux server software like web servers? Plain old OCaml on Debian, etc. works well
- Writing compilers or proofs? Plain old OCaml works really well
The DkML Installer for OCaml generates and distributes installers for the DkML distribution. Windows, Debian/x86_64 and macOS/Silicon are ready today.
For news about DkML,
Windows user?
Run the latest Windows 64-bit Bytecode Edition installer.
After your install is completed, you can read the Install is done! What next? documentation.
The full set of releases is at https://gitlab.com/dkml/distributions/dkml/-/releases
The full documentation is at https://diskuv.com/dkmlbook
Thanks to the [OCaml Software Foundation](https://ocaml-sf.org)
for economic support to the development of DkML.
We use the dkml-install-api to generate installers from the following Opam packages:
- dkml-component-ocamlrun
- dkml-component-ocamlcompiler
- dkml-component-opam
- dkml-component-desktop
- dkml-component-unixutils
On Windows, if you have already installed OCaml:
with-dkml opam install . --with-test --with-doc --deps-only
with-dkml dune buildOn Unix:
opam install .--with-test --with-doc --deps-only
dune buildThe installer makes heavy use of the dkml-install-api. See the Contributors section of dkml-install-api.
In addition, there are
| What | Branch/Tag | Status |
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| Installer build and test |  |
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| Installer syntax check |  |