A free culture OCaml textbook

This book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, a free culture license.

It's meant to be a collaborative effort that belongs to the community and can freely shared, updated and maintained even if the original authors no longer have the time and motivation to maintain it.

Everyone is welcome to contribute. Just create a pull request.

You will need:

• soupault website generator, version 1.8 or newer.
• cmark for Markdown to HTML conversion.
• highlight for static syntax highlighting
• The OCaml compiler for build-time example typechecking
• GNU Make

Once you have all dependencies, run make all, the output will be in build/.

cmark 0.29 made "safe mode" the default and removes HTML tags from Markdown source (why a locally run program working with local files would want to do that by default is beyond me). Why they didn't add a backwards-compatibility mechanism like an environment variable is also beyond me.

Anyway, the md = "cmark --unsafe" line in soupault.conf will only work with cmark >=0.29

If you are building on a system with an older cmark version, remove --unsafe.

A draft more or less in sync with the repo lives at https://ocaml-book.baturin.org I should setup a CI for it eventually.