HACKING.adoc

Contributing to the standard library

For guidelines about standard library content, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Note: All paths are given relative to the root of the repository.

First, build the compiler. Run ./configure, then make. See ../HACKING.adoc.

To add a new module, you must:

• Create new .mli and .ml files for the modules, obviously.

• Define the module in stdlib/stdlib.mli and stdlib/stdlib.ml in the section of the code commented "MODULE_ALIASES". Please maintain the same style as the rest of the code, in particular the alphabetical ordering and whitespace alignment of module aliases.

• Add module_name to the definition of STDLIB_MODULE_BASENAMES in stdlib/StdlibModules. You must keep the list sorted in dependency order.

• Run make alldepend to update all the .depend files. These files are not edited by hand.

• Run make clean or make partialclean, then make.

If you are adding multiple modules, follow the steps above and rebuild the compiler after adding each module. If you add multiple modules before rebuilding, the build may fail.