Overview

Personal notes and coursework in CSI3520 Concepts des langages de programmation / CSI3120 Programming Language Concepts at the University of Ottawa.

Installation and setup (Windows 10)

This is how I set up OCaml on my Windows 10 computer.

• Follow this video from 0:00 to 4:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyF_2uPjc8M
  • Install OCaml64 from fdopen https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/installation/
  • Open OCaml64 from home screen and run the following command opam install dune utop ocaml-lsp-server
• Install "OCaml Platform" extension on VS Code
• Follow this video from 4:00 to 5:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yabnyUL4-U
  • Add the following path to environment variable Path for {USER} C:\OCaml64\home\{USER}\.opam\4.14.0+mingw64c\bin
  • Add the following path to new environment variable OCAMLLIB for {USER} C:\OCaml64\home\{USER}\.opam\4.14.0+mingw64c\lib
• Open VS Code and start coding away
  • OCaml files have extension .ml
  • Run utop in VS Code terminal before coding (Powershell or Bash, doesn't matter)
  • Run #use FILE_NAME.ml to import variables and functions in a file

Learning the basics

Introduction to OCaml: Basics & Functions - Programming with OCaml #1 [2022] by narlock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ3_bNQPixQ