Binary distribution ¶

Ocsigen is available in some software distributions, e.g.:

• Debian (good support) and Ubuntu (Currently, only ocsigen 1.3.4 is available)
• Gentoo (Currently, only ocsigen 1.3.4 is available)

If your distribution has all the packages you need, this is probably the simplest way to install Ocsigen software.

Source compilation ¶

If the latest version of Ocsigen is not available in your distribution or if you want to install a development version, you may compile the whole Ocsigen platform with one of the following techniques:

• The Ocsigen bundle ease the compilation of the Ocsigen platform and its OCaml library dependencies.
• The Godi source code distribution usually provides the latest Ocsigen releases.
• Downloads and compile each project individually.

Individual source package ¶

The Ocsigen platform as a lot of dependencies, and building each project individually may be a long process. Here the consolidated list of dependencies in the order you may build them.

Consolidated dependencies

C libraries ¶

• libev: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
• gdbm: http://directory.fsf.org/project/gdbm/
• ncurses: http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
• pcre3: http://www.pcre.org/
• openssl: http://www.openssl.org/
• sqlite3 (optionnal): http://www.sqlite.org/
• cairo (optional): http://www.cairographics.org/

On Debian based system:

sudo aptitude install libev-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev libpcre3-dev \
                      libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libcairo-ocaml-dev

OCaml libraries

• ocaml (>= 3.12): http://www.ocaml.org
• findlib : http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html
• react: http://erratique.ch/software/react
• ocamlssl: http://sourceforge.net/projects/savonet/files/ocaml-ssl/
• pcre-ocaml: http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#pcre-ocaml
• ocamlnet: http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/ocamlnet.html
• cryptokit: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#cryptokit
• ocaml-text: http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-text/
• calendar: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/calendar/

On Debian based system:

sudo aptitude install ocaml ocaml-compiler-libs \
                      camlp4 camlp4-extra \
                      ocaml-findlib libfindlib-ocaml-dev \
                      libreact-ocaml-dev libssl-ocaml-dev libpcre-ocaml-dev \
                      libcryptokit-ocaml-dev libtext-ocaml-dev \
                      libcalendar-ocaml-dev libocamlnet-dev

Optionnal OCaml libraries

• ocamlsqlite3: http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#ocaml-sqlite3
• camlzip: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#camlzip
• ocamlduce: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocamlduce/
• type-conv: http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/13

On Debian based system:

sudo aptitude install libsqlite3-ocaml-dev libzip-ocaml-dev \
                      libtype-conv-camlp4-dev ocamlduce

Build each projects separately

As this step, you may build the Ocsigen platform in this order:

• Lwt (enable at least ssl and react support)
• deriving-ocsigen
• Js_of_ocaml
• TyXML
• Ocsigen Server
• Eliom

Consolidated dependencies for Ocsimore

External C libraries

• linux-pam: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
• postgresql: http://www.postgresql.org/

On Debian based system:

sudo aptitude install libpam0g-dev postgresql

External OCaml libraries

• extlib: http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-extlib/
• csv: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/csv/
• pgocaml: http://pgocaml.berlios.de/
• ocamlpam: http://sharvil.nanavati.net/projects/ocamlpam/

On Debian based system:

sudo aptitude install libextlib-ocaml-dev libcsv-ocaml-dev libpgocaml-ocaml-dev libpam-ocaml-dev