car: A collection of aliases for common tasks on OCaml projects using ocamlbuild. (cons was taken!)

Provides shortcuts for common tasks involving OCaml projects, e.g.:

• installing a project as a library
• writing the same list of dependencies to .merlin, _tags, and META
• running _test.ml files

It's intended that you copy this script to your project's directory and modify it however you see fit. It's called mk because it's easy to type "./mk" with one hand.

I will add more documentation soon!

You're expected to have a directory structure like this:

project/
  car
  car.toml
  src/
    main.ml
    some_module.ml
    some_module_test.ml
    ...

To create an initial car.toml file you can run ./car init. You can also install car to somewhere on $PATH and do car instead of ./car, although then you won't be able to make customizations per-project.

If you want to build a toplevel using car top, running car topgen will splice support code in the following files (paths relative to the root of the project):

In .ocamlinit:

#thread
#directory "src/_build"

In src/project_top.ml (replace project with the name of your project):

let () = UTop_main.main ()

project_top.ml file is ignored when building your project as a library.

After running car topgen, you can run car top to build your own custom toplevel. You can run it with ./project.top (where project is your project's name).