OCaml
OCaml libraries should be installed in
$(out)/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/. Such
directories are automatically added to the $OCAMLPATH
environment variable when building another package that depends on them
or when opening a nix-shell.
Given that most of the OCaml ecosystem is now built with dune,
nixpkgs includes a convenience build support function called
buildDunePackage that will build an OCaml package
using dune, OCaml and findlib and any additional dependencies provided
as buildInputs or propagatedBuildInputs.
Here is a simple package example. It defines an (optional) attribute
minimumOCamlVersion that will be used to throw a
descriptive evaluation error if building with an older OCaml is attempted.
It uses the fetchFromGitHub fetcher to get its source.
It sets the doCheck (optional) attribute to
true which means that tests will be run with
dune runtest -p angstrom after the build
(dune build -p angstrom) is complete.
It uses alcotest as a build input (because it is needed
to run the tests) and bigstringaf and
result as propagated build inputs (thus they will also
be available to libraries depending on this library).
The library will be installed using the angstrom.install
file that dune generates.
{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, alcotest, result, bigstringaf }:
buildDunePackage rec {
pname = "angstrom";
version = "0.10.0";
minimumOCamlVersion = "4.03";
src = fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "inhabitedtype";
repo = pname;
rev = version;
sha256 = "0lh6024yf9ds0nh9i93r9m6p5psi8nvrqxl5x7jwl13zb0r9xfpw";
};
buildInputs = [ alcotest ];
propagatedBuildInputs = [ bigstringaf result ];
doCheck = true;
meta = {
homepage = https://github.com/inhabitedtype/angstrom;
description = "OCaml parser combinators built for speed and memory efficiency";
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ sternenseemann ];
};
}
Here is a second example, this time using a source archive generated with
dune-release. The unpackCmd
redefinition is necessary to be able to unpack the kind of tarball that
dune-release generates. This library does not depend
on any other OCaml library and no tests are run after building it.
{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildDunePackage }:
buildDunePackage rec {
pname = "wtf8";
version = "1.0.1";
minimumOCamlVersion = "4.01";
src = fetchurl {
url = "https://github.com/flowtype/ocaml-${pname}/releases/download/v${version}/${pname}-${version}.tbz";
sha256 = "1msg3vycd3k8qqj61sc23qks541cxpb97vrnrvrhjnqxsqnh6ygq";
};
unpackCmd = "tar xjf $src";
meta = with stdenv.lib; {
homepage = https://github.com/flowtype/ocaml-wtf8;
description = "WTF-8 is a superset of UTF-8 that allows unpaired surrogates.";
license = licenses.mit;
maintainers = [ maintainers.eqyiel ];
};
}