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Installing OPAM and OCaml

Follow these instructions in Michael Clarkson's textbook, OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful. In short: you need to have,

  • a Unix development environment (which could be native Linux, native MacOS, or (on Windows 10/11) a WSL2 virtual machine running Linux.
  • The opam package manager running under Unix.
  • The OCaml compiler installed through opam.
  • The VS Code editor, running native. (That means, under Windows your VS Code will not run inside WSL2.)

Text Editors

You don't have to use VS Code. You could use Emacs, or some other text editor. See our page on text editors to install here

Princeton University, Computer Science Department