Compile ReasonML To Native With Dune

Dune is "a composable build system for OCaml" with out-of-the-box support for ReasonML. Dune can be used for a lot of things, but in simplest terms it can be used to compile ReasonML programs into native executables.

Considering the following ReasonML program.

/* hello_reason.re */
print_endline("Hello, Reason!")

We can then create the following Dune build file.

;; dune
(executable
 (name hello_reason))

If we then run dune build hello_reason.exe, then Dune will compile the hello_reason.re into a hello_reason.exe executable that can be found in build/default. Run it and see the output.

Read more in the Quickstart guide.

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