Typenv__Envaux_hack.Error(...) and Dune integration

[hackwaly]

Since debug informations provided by bytecode file sometimes are not enough to use to debug. It is a good point that if we can use merlin config produced by dune.

And we can upgrade the user experience by available to list debuggable programs via dune integration.

[PavelKotov1]

Hello, i am very new to ocaml, so please do not be angry with me!
I am having trouble understanding the difference between using
ocamlc -g main.ml approach
and compiling using dune producing main.bc file.
Is it only used to debug utop examples?
What is the difference between the files produced by ocamlc -g and dune produced *.bc file?
How different is it from "traditional" approach? You still provide lanch.json file.
I am very confuse...
Could somebody explain? Thanks in advance!

[atagunov]

It is my impression dune might have stopped or may stop producing those .merlin files replacing them with a new command

dune ocaml-merlin

Or that it may still be producing .merlin files but this is supposed to be better.

I understand it may work a little like LSP: you start dune process with this command, feed requests to its stdin and read answers from stdout. This is touted to be a better facility as you presumably can ask questions about particular source files rather than get folder-level info.

I haven't found many references online but links from changelog provide useful info

[hackwaly]

Thank you. I have found this command and dune describe command both can be used. I'm investigating which is best fit our case.

[hackwaly]

ref ocaml/dune#4263