Module `Ocamlbuild_js_of_ocaml`

Ocamlbuild plugin to build with js_of_ocaml

Initialize

Initialize the js_of_ocaml ocamlbuild plugin with the following code in myocamlbuild.ml:

let _ = Ocamlbuild_plugin.dispatch Ocamlbuild_js_of_ocaml.dispatcher

Side note: Ocamlbuild_plugin.dispatch should be used only once. The last call will override previous ones.

With Oasis

If you use oasis, myocamlbuild.ml should look like:

let _ =
  Ocamlbuild_plugin.dispatch
    (fun hook ->
       dispatch_default hook;
       Ocamlbuild_js_of_ocaml.dispatcher
         ~oasis_executables:["src/yourprogram.byte"]
         hook;
    )

Build

Build a JavaScript program myprog.js by calling the command:

ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind -plugin-tag "package(js_of_ocaml.ocamlbuild)" myprog.js

It will first build the bytecode myprog.byte and finally produce myprog.js (in _build).

Options

One can pass option to the Js_of_ocaml compiler using tags. See <<a_manual chapter="options" |Options>>.

Available tags:

pretty: Pretty print the generated javascript.
debuginfo: Output debug information.
noinline: Disable inlining
sourcemap: Generate sourcemap
tailcall(none): Set the tailcall optimisation (default "trampoline")
opt(3): Set the compilation profile (default 1)
debug: enables pretty, debuginfo, sourcemap

Exemples

In the _tags file:

<myprog.js>:pretty, opt(3)

Dispatchers

val dispatcher : ?⁠oasis_executables:Ocamlbuild_plugin.Pathname.t list -> Ocamlbuild_plugin.hook -> unit

The main dispatcher

?oasis_executables is the paths of the executables (having the .byte extension) you want to compile as a javascript executable. The former executables are still compiled.

Side note: Ocamlbuild_plugin.dispatch should be used only once as it record only one function for an ocamlbuild module.

Low level functions

val oasis_support : executables:Ocamlbuild_plugin.Pathname.t list -> unit: Map each targets given as argument to ocamlbuild and replace each element that exists in ~executables by its corresponding .js target.