Installing and running ocamljs

Installing ocamljs

1. Prerequisites: OCaml 3.11.x or 3.12.0, Findlib, ulex
2. Unpack the OCaml source distribution (matching your OCaml installation) into a directory adjacent to the ocamljs source (you can also use the -srcdir argument to configure to point to a different directory).
3. If you want Lwt and/or Ounit support, unpack their sources (matching the installed versions) into adjacent directories (or use the -srcdir-lwt and -srcdir-ounit arguments). NB: ounit-1.0.3 has 1.0.2 in its META file, so you need to either fix the META file, rename the source directory, or use -srcdir-ounit.
4. In the ocamljs directory, run ./configure
5. make builds ocamljs and the associated libraries
6. make install installs ocamljs and the associated libraries
7. make test runs the test suite; see Ounit for prerequisites
8. make examples builds all the examples

Using ocamljs

The command ocamljs may be used just like ocamlc or ocamlopt. It generates .cmjs/.cmjsa files instead of .cmo/.cma. A linked file (.js) consists of Javascript source, which may be run through a standalone Javascript interpreter, or embedded in a web page or Firefox extension. See the examples for details.

See tools/myocambuild.ml for some useful ocamlbuild rules.

There is also findlib support which is recommended.