I'm currently trying to start learning ocaml with cygwin, but when I try to compile an ml file, nothing happens - no error messages and no files created.
The command I used on cygwin was,
$ ocamlc hello.ml
According to my Prof., there should be a file called, a.out created on my working folder, but there was nothing.
But when I tried with this command,
$ ocamlc -o a.out hello.ml
a.out file was created properly, and I could run the compiled program using
$ ./a.out
as pointed out by the Prof.
For some experiment, I typed in the following,
$ ocamlc -o a hello.ml
This created a file named 'a' without any file extension.
So my question is, 1. Why doesn't it create the a.out file in the first place? - it should have been done according to the Prof. 2. What does the .out file do?
Any new file created when you type ocamlc hello.ml? Maybe camlprog.exe around? If it is, you are using MinGW OCaml over Cygwin. MinGW OCaml is a windows app therefore its default executable file name is not a.out, which is the default name for Unix and Cygwin.
I never recommend ppl to learn OCaml with Windows or Cygwin. Since there are 3 flavors: Cygwin OCaml, MinGW OCaml and MSVC OCaml and they behave slightly different like this. And newcomers are never sure which flavor they are actually using.