Difference between module and package Ocaml

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I'm basically trying to follow this stackoverflow answer located in this post:

What is the best module for HttpRequest in OCaml

and I'm running in to problems. When I am trying to run a single file with just 

open Lwt ;;

I am getting and error saying it is an unbound module. I have run the following opam instruction:

opam install lwt

and it did install the correct package.

So I think the problem is the difference between a module and a package, which I don't really understand. I was looking at this question as a possible answer, but I wasn't sure if it was what I needed.

Unbound modules in OCaml

Thanks for the input guys, I'm new to Ocaml and I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of building something.

2
ocamlopam
how are you compiling it?. I'd suggest using _oasis (see oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/quickstart.html) for generating the appropriate build script for you. - ppolv

2 Answers

5
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To use a "package", you must tell the compiler about it explicitly. Unbound module in OCaml usually means one of two things: your made a typo of the module name, or you failed to set a proper module search path. What compiler options do you use?

If you use ocamlfind, the compilation should look like:

ocamlfind ocamlc -package lwt -c mymodule.ml

this instructs the compiler to try to find modules in lwt package installation directory, in addition to the default ones.

if you do not use ocamlfind.... well, use ocamlfind.

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The command for compiling our program will be:

ocamlfind ocamlopt -o progprog -linkpkg \
  -package lablGL,sdl,sdl.sdlimage,sdl.sdlmixer,sdl.sdlttf \
  module1.ml module2.ml

As seen on: https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/compiling_ocaml_projects.html