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Andrey Frolov
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First steps - installation of Ocaml

#ocaml #newbie #howto #tutorial

Installation of package manager

brew install gpatch brew install opam
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Installation of Ocaml

# environment setup opam init # put the shel in the right step eval $(opam env) # install given version of the compiler opam switch create 4.12.0 eval $(opam env) # check you got what you want which ocaml ocaml -version
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So now you can start a repl and play around it

ocaml
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let rec fib n = if n < 2 then n else fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2);;
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How to solve problems with opam?

On Linux and macOS, this will be the ~/.opam directory, which means you don't need administrative privileges to configure it. If you run into problems configuring opam, just delete the whole ~/.opam directory and start over.

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