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Hello,

> Hello Sylvain,
>
> [ Could you keep demexp-dev in your emails, this allows archiving for
> people having similar issues as yours. I have allowed you to post on
> it without being subscribed to it. ]
>

I had it in mind but forgot when I clicked on "Send" 

> I should detect that we are under MacOS in the ./configure and set
> appropriate compilation option.
>
> Could you give me the result of:
>  - uname -m
>  - uname -o
>  - uname -s
>  - uname -r

% uname -m
Power Macintosh

% uname -o
uname: illegal option -- o
usage: uname [-amnprsv]

% uname -s
Darwin

% uname -r
7.9.0

./configure mentions some things about my caml installation but nothing 
about my system. Maybe you just don't log it.

> Could you send them to me (by compiling with a "-warn A") so I could 
> fix them?

See the attached files log.error.*

I'm surprised you can't do it yourself : can an unused variable be 
something architecture specific ?

> Great! At least you have some code to play with.  Which part of
> demexp do you need? Have you any plan for it?

Yes, it's great. I want to try both the client and the server. I'm very 
interested in demexp and want to try the client with your servers ; but 
I want also to launch a server myself to understand how all this stuff 
functions and maybe to use it eventually to take decision in some 
associations.

>> Do you want a complete log of make server ?
>
> Yes, if this doesn't bother you. Compile with "-warn A -verbose" as
> ocamlopt and ocamlc option. As it is working with ocamlc and not with
> ocamlopt, it might suggest the thing which is different between the
> two cases.
>
> Best wishes,
> d.

See the attached files log.server*

I'd end with three remarks :
1) You don't seem to know that the binary you provide for Mac OS X 
doesn't work. When you try to run it, you have the following error :
dyld: ./macosx-demexp-gtk2-client-0.6 can't open library: 
/Users/fponscar/godi/lib/libcurl.3.dylib  (No such file or directory, 
errno = 2)
Indeed, I first tried to compile the client for that reason.
Actually, you should remove it from download and from the wiki and 
maybe provide a more sophisticated documentation to compile under Mac 
OS X. It is not a simple task since there are a lot of dependencies to 
compile demexp and I'm on it for one or two weeks. But it should be 
possible to make a specific tutorial. I can try to do it if you want.

2) It is a bit hard to find the sources of demexp. When you are in the 
wiki you click and re-click and, one time, randomly, you finally find 
the link to the sources. You should probably give a link to the sources 
in the "download page" (except if you intentionnaly decided to not  put 
it here).

3) I don't understand perfectly the philosophical and practical 
difference between static linking and dynamic linkning but since it 
seems to be impossible to link statically under Mac OS X, you should 
fix it, at least modifying the configure script to take it in account.

Best regards,

Sylvain.