Getting Started and Core Concepts

These documents should be the first ones read by new Dune users. They explain what Dune is, how it works, and how to use it.

• Overview
  • Introduction
  • Terminology
  • Project Layout
  • History
• Quickstart
  • Initializing Projects
  • Building a Hello World Program From Scratch
  • Building a Hello World Program Using Lwt
  • Building a Hello World Program Using Core and Jane Street PPXs
  • Defining a Library Using Lwt and ocaml-re
  • Building a Hello World Program in Bytecode
  • Setting the OCaml Compilation Flags Globally
  • Using Cppo
  • Defining a Library with C Stubs
  • Defining a Library with C Stubs using pkg-config
  • Using a Custom Code Generator
  • Defining Tests
  • Building a Custom Toplevel
• Command-Line Interface
  • Initializing Components
  • Finding the Root
  • Interpretation of Targets
  • Finding External Libraries
  • Running Tests
  • Watch Mode
  • Launching the Toplevel (REPL)
  • Restricting the Set of Packages
  • Distributing Projects
  • dune subst
  • Custom Build Directory
  • Installing a Package
  • Querying Merlin Configuration
  • Running a Coq Toplevel