Installation

OCaml switch

Follow the online instructions to install opam.

Initialize your local switch, using opam:

opam switch create <switch_name> 4.12.0

Library dependencies

Depending on the database backend you chose, you will need to setup some some configuration and install optional ocaml dependencies.

Postgresql

Before installing the OCaml binding of postgresql, you need to install postgresql itself by following the online documentation.

To use postgresql with ocaml, you will to setup a user and configure it (requiring superuser).

make pg-user

After the configuration, you can install PGOCaml, the OCaml binding of postgres, in addition to other project dependencies. This can be achieved with:

make pg-deps

LMDB

You only need to install the ocaml binding for lmdb, in addition to other project dependencies. This can be achieved with:

make lmdb-deps

CAQTI

You only need to install the caqti-lwt and the caqti driver of your choice. This can be achieved with:

make caqti-deps

Indexedb

You only need to install the ocaml binding for indexedDB, in addition to other project dependencies. This can be achieved with:

make idb-deps

Building/Installing the binaries and library

If everything went well, you should be able to build crawlori with:

make

and install it in the opam switch with:

make install