How To Install ocaml-camlidl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-camlidl
on CentOS 7.
What is ocaml-camlidl
CamlIDL is a stub code generator and COM binding for Objective Caml. CamlIDL comprises two parts * A stub code generator that generates the C stub code required for the Caml/C interface, based on an MIDL specification. (MIDL stands for Microsoft’s Interface Description Language; it looks like C header files with some extra annotations, plus a notion of object interfaces that look like C++ classes without inheritance.) * A (currently small) library of functions and tools to import COM components in Caml applications, and export Caml code as COM components.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ocaml-camlidl
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ocaml-camlidl.
Install ocaml-camlidl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ocaml-camlidl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ocaml-camlidl on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ocaml-camlidl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ocaml-camlidl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ocaml-camlidl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-camlidl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.