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Faster Incremental Builds with Dune 3
In February 2022, we released Dune 3.0. This updated version is the result of considerable development work over the previous six months. Dune 3.0 contains many new features, one of which is “watch mode,” an exciting new feature explained below. As a build system, Dune’s main goal is to build …
Principal Software Engineer
Fuzzing OCamlFormat with AFL and Crowbar
AFL (and fuzzing in general) is often used to find bugs in low-level code like parsers, but it also works very well to find bugs in high level code, provided the right ingredients. We applied this technique to feed random programs to OCamlFormat and found many formatting bugs. OCamlFormat is a tool …
Principal Software Engineer
How configurator reads C constants
Dune comes with a library to query OS-specific information, called configurator. It is able to evaluate C expressions and turn them into OCaml value. Surprisingly, it even works when compiling for a different architecture. How can it do that? …
Principal Software Engineer
Dune 1.2.0
After a tiny but important patch release as 1.1.1, the dune team is thrilled to announce the release of dune 1.2.0! Here are some highlights of the new features in that version. The full list of changes can be found in the dune repository. Watch mode When developing, it is common to edit a file, run…
Principal Software Engineer
