how to load rope: installed it, but failing to load it

Question

I installed rope with opam and verified that it's available:

rope 0.5 Ropes ("heavyweight strings")

But how to load it?? The documentation states I should use #load "rope.cma";; but this gives me the message Cannot find file rope.cma.

Can someone please tell me what's the incantation for loading it??

Answer 1

To load rope into interactive session use topfind

# #use "topfind";;
# #require "rope";;

To compile your programs with rope

ocamlbuild -pkg rope your_program.native

or alternatively

ocamlfind ocamlopt -package rope your_program.ml -o your_program