02:03 <discocaml> <darrenldl> i guess pick the one with largest user base

02:53 <discocaml> <leviroth> Suspect for the most part it’s not languages that yield jobs; it’s names on the resume, language-agnostic skills, interview performance, etc

14:20 <remexre> does anyone have a working example of using dune's ctypes support to link to a library _without_ vendoring it? the library in question ships a pkg-config file that seems to work, but I get "undefined reference" errors to every symbol from it when linking my executable

14:30 <Leonidas> remexre: does pkg-config output the right -l flag?

14:32 <remexre> yeah, and I can link a small C program against it with gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs foo) test.c

14:32 <Leonidas> and does it work if you pass the right flag with (c_library_flags)?

14:33 <remexre> looks like no

14:33 <remexre> ooh, it works if i put the absolute path of the static library in instead

14:33 <remexre> (there's both a static and shared version)

14:36 <remexre> it looks like (c_library_flags -Bstatic -lfoo) works too, though this feels hacky

14:37 <Leonidas> Are you sure the shared version works? It could be empty, hence a linking a small C program works

14:38 <remexre> the C program called a function defined in the library, so it didn't just get optimized out or anything, and nm -g on the shared library shows it having the symbols i'm trying to link to

14:41 <remexre> augh, wait, i lied, (c_library_flags -Bstatic -lfoo) doesn't work, I tried putting the path into the executable's flags as a -cclib flag and that worked, forgot to remove that

14:41 <remexre> just adding -cclib -lfoo to the executable doesn't either though...

15:13 <discocaml> <amaro> Hi, I have some questions concerning Diskuv... in particular, how to install dependences for `conf-` packages with it (e.g. `conf-autoconf`). Is there a specific channel for Windows and/or Diskuv?

15:21 <discocaml> <NULL> No to the last question

15:26 <discocaml> <amaro> Thanks!

15:26 <discocaml> <amaro> I just noticed that Diskuv mentions MSYS2, but I don't understand if it is supposed to install it by default; if there is a way to install it with Diskuv (the installer I used never asked about it); or if I should install it myself and then configure OCaml to work with it. There are so many dkml Github repositories that I can't find some definitive documentation about that.

16:26 <remexre> ok, bizarrely, when I installed only the static version of the library, it still gets undefined reference -- I'm now wondering if the objects might be getting passed to the linker in the wrong order

21:25 <xcombelle> hi I'm on arm64/M1 macos, I installed ocaml, and eventually had this .vimrc file https://gist.github.com/xcombelle/1d76dfa818de8789a698363a180ec4df . Now vim startup time jumped to 1.5s (it startup in 0.04s before)

21:27 <xcombelle> I mean editing any file not ocaml file