Installing Boomerang in 2020

Summary:

I'd like to try out the Boomerang tutorial, but am having trouble building the project from source.

Installing Boomerang in 2020

J Jakes-Schauer 11 Apr 2020 20:23

Is the Boomerang language still being maintained? The GitHub repo [link redacted] hasn't been updated in about two years, and I think it's missing some stuff—notably the 'INSTALL.txt' instructions mentioned in the documentation.

OCaml isn't a language I've much studied. After installing it (v4.05) and some other prerequisites, such as jbuilder, I am able to run make, whereupon the following error presents itself:

File "stdlib/util.ml", line 684, characters 9-37:
Error: The function applied to this argument has type
         compare:('a -> 'a -> int) -> 'a list
This argument cannot be applied with label ~cmp

Re: Installing Boomerang in 2020

J Jakes-Schauer 07 Jul 2020 00:31

I'll offer a partial response to my own post, having successfully gotten Boomerang going, with some work. I used an old version of OCaml:

opam switch create 4.04.2

I also rolled back Boomerang to before it used jbuilder:

git checkout e64f97b

Made sure I had OASIS, and ran make to completion.