[LLVMdev] Status of Ocaml bindings

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I'm interested in the LLVM Ocaml bindings so I pulled the current
sources from SVN and built them. When I ran the test suite I got the
following stats:

    # of expected passes            2631
    # of unexpected failures        7
    # of expected failures          11

It looks like some of the failures were due to the Ocaml parts of the
tests:

    FAIL: /home/erikd/Hack/SVN/llvm/test/Bindings/Ocaml/analysis.ml
    Failed with unknown error (or has stderr output) at line 1
    while running: /usr/bin/ocamlc.opt -cc g++ -I /home/erikd/Hack/SVN/llvm/Debug/lib/ocaml
      -warn-error A llvm.cma llvm_analysis.cma /home/erikd/Hack/SVN/llvm/test/Bindings/Ocaml/analysis.ml
      -o analysis.ml.tmp
    /tmp/camlprim265f17.c:911: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'

and

    FAIL: /home/erikd/Hack/SVN/llvm/test/Bindings/Ocaml/bitreader.ml
    Failed with unknown error (or has stderr output) at line 1
    while running: /usr/bin/ocamlc.opt -cc g++ -I /home/erikd/Hack/SVN/llvm/Debug/lib/ocaml
      -warn-error A llvm.cma llvm_bitreader.cma llvm_bitwriter.cma
      /home/erikd/Hack/SVN/llvm/test/Bindings/Ocaml/bitreader.ml -o bitreader.ml.tmp
    /tmp/camlprim69f718.c:917: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'

and so on.

What is the status of these bindings? Are they supposed to be working?

My system is Ubuntu Linux (Hardy Heron release) on x86. The compilers
I'm using are:

    gcc    4.2.3
    g++    4.2.3
    ocaml  3.10.0

and were all installed from binary packages. I also tried gcc/g++
version 3.4.6, but that wouldn't even compile llvm.

Any clues?

Cheers,
Erik
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