Ocaml Unicode Patch

Update (2009-05-01)

Now I would advise against this patch, better extract needed code from ocaml sources and compile locally, it is much easier to update and maintain.

Original

Created for mldonkey by spiralvoice http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?4515 (looks like they are not using it anymore..)

Problems with this patch (from the windows user point of view) :

• requires mingw
• fails to compile properly -- some problems with C syntax
• requires libiconv
• has a bug in caml_sys_getcwd() which causes buffer overflow at startup (when compiled with msvc at least). _wgetcwd() accepts the number of characters, not bytes, as the length of the supplied buffer

Modified

Modified patch fixes bug in caml_sys_getcwd(), unicode'fies more functions (I needed caml_sys_is_directory() in particular), uses WideCharToMultiByte api for utf8 conversions and compiles cleanly with msvc.

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It worked pretty well for me (to create windows COM inproc server dll module with Ocaml 3.10 and MSVC 8.0 (2005)).

2009-05-01