Dune Documentation

Dune is a build system for OCaml projects. Using it, you can build executables, libraries, run tests, and much more.

• Getting Started and Core Concepts
  • Overview
  • Quickstart
  • Command-Line Interface
• Tutorials
  • Developing with Dune
  • OCaml Package Management With Dune
• How-to Guides
  • How to Install Dune
  • How to Set up Automatic Formatting
  • How to Generate Opam Files from dune-project
  • Cross-Compilation
  • Dealing with Foreign Libraries
  • Generating Documentation
  • How to Load Additional Files at Runtime
  • Instrumentation
  • JavaScript Compilation With Js_of_ocaml
  • Wasm Compilation With Wasm_of_ocaml
  • JavaScript Compilation With Melange
  • Virtual Libraries
  • Writing and Running Tests
  • How to Bundle Resources
  • How to Load a Project in a Toplevel
  • Using Rule Generation
  • How to Override the Default C Entrypoint With C Stubs
• Reference Manual
  • dune
  • dune-project
  • dune-workspace
  • config
  • Lexical Conventions
  • Actions
  • Ordered Set Language
  • Boolean Language
  • Predicate Language
  • Library Dependencies
  • Preprocessing Specification
  • Cram Tests
  • Scopes
  • Variables
  • Dependency Specification
  • OCaml Flags
  • Sandboxing
  • Locks
  • Diffing and Promotion
  • Package Specification
  • Aliases
  • Foreign Stubs
  • Foreign Archives
  • Extra Objects
  • Flags in Foreign Code
  • Command Line Interface
  • Dune Libraries
  • Dune Cache
  • Coq
  • Dune RPC
  • Packages
  • Findlib Integration
• Explanation
  • How Preprocessing Works
  • The OCaml Ecosystem
  • How Package Management Works
  • How Dune integrates with opam
  • How Dune Uses Dune to Build Dune
  • The Dune Mental Model
  • A Tour of the Dune Codebase
• Advanced Topics
  • Dynamic Loading of Packages with Findlib
  • Profiling Dune
  • Package Version
  • OCaml Syntax
  • Variables for Artifacts
  • Building an Ad Hoc .cmxs
• Miscellaneous
  • FAQ
  • Goal of Dune
  • Working on the Dune Codebase