missing dependency?

[progman1]

hi
just taking for a spin to see if I can take the pain out of refactoring
some legacy perl scripting.

opam install of shcaml succeeded (installs 4.08.1) but (since you dep on ocamlfind)
#require "shcaml";;
fails with missing lwt.unix
installed lwt then undefined global 'Mutex' (presumably a module part of some other s/w)

[tov]

Thanks for this report as well!

This looks like a tougher one, especially because I don’t know OCaml tooling these days.

@Armael, are you still on as maintainer, and are you able to look into this?

[Armael]

Yeah I'll look into this one.

[Armael]

Ok, there are two distinct issues there:

• shcaml is supposed to work even if lwt is not installed. This is not the case currently as you found out, because I messed up the META file. I'm not sure how to fix it exactly at the moment; until then, a workaround is to install lwt.
• the undefined global Mutex error. This one is actually not caused by shcaml itself. See here and here. Basically, you need to do #thread;; in the toplevel before calling #require "shcaml";;.