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by chris_armstrong 3 days ago
Installing via opam and using the cygwin method is supported and should be working fine (cygwin is just used for build - binaries still just link with mingw).

That specific combination (ocaml + mingw) has a known problem with ocamlfind that's still awaiting a new release (see https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlfind/pull/112). ocamlfind underpins quite a bit of the package ecosystem, so this one is annoying, as the mingw workflow is otherwise quite good.

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It's incredibly painful working with OCaml and dune on Windows, unfortunately. Docs are insufficient and there is little information online :/, wish it was not the case.