OCaml Development Box

Setup your OCaml development environment in a matter of minutes.

Use Vagrant to set up a virtual machine with everything you need to develop using the OCaml language. All you have to do is copy-paste a few commands detailed below and you'll be ready to go.

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant

How To

1. git clone https://github.com/dtoma/trusty64-ocaml-box.git
2. cd trusty64-ocaml-box
3. vagrant up (create the virtual machine from the Vagrantfile)
4. vagrant ssh (connect to the virtual machine)
5. sh /vagrant/install.sh (install additional packages, setup .emacs)

OS

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (Trusty Tahr) - 64 bits.

OCaml

• OCaml
• OPAM (OCaml Package Manager)
• utop (a universal toplevel for OCaml)

Editor

• Emacs 24
• Tuareg (an Emacs OCaml mode)
• Merlin (Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vim and Emacs)

Misc

Git

Thanks

Great tutorial from Jane Street

This is a good read even if you use this box to setup your development environment, in order to understand how OCaml is installed.

Have fun!