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Because there are several ways of linking, and findlib is not the

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>Recent versions of OCaml support DLLs, at least for some

platforms. Here, the option -custom is not necessary at all, because the

C libraries can be looked up and loaded at runtime. The option -custom

would have the effect of forcing static linking.

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>But even for platforms without DLL support, there are two

alternatives. One possibility is to use -custom, and the other is to

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