Module Boot__Env
Coq runtime enviroment API.
This module provides functions for manipulation of Coq's runtime enviroment, including the standard directories and support files.
This API is similar in spirit to findlib's or dune-sites API, see their documentation for more information:
- http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/dl/findlib-1.9.1/doc/ref-html/lib/index.html
- https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/stable/sites.html#sites
It is important that this library has a minimal dependency set.
The Coq runtime enviroment needs to be properly initialized before use; we detail the rules below. It is recommended that applications requiring multiple accesses to the environment, do initialize it once and keep a ref to it. We don't forbid yet double initialization, (second time is a noop) but we may do so in the future. Rules for "coqlib" are:
- the
COQLIB
env variable will be used if set - if not, the existence of
theories/Init/Prelude.vo
will be checked, in the following order:
coqlibsuffix
given in configurecoqlib
given in configure
- if none of the above succeeds, the initialization will fail
- The
COQCORELIB
env variable is also used if set, if not, the location of the coq-core files will be assumed to beCOQLIB/../coq-core
, except ifCOQLIB/plugins
existsas in some developers layouts
, in which case we will setCOQCORELIB:=COQLIB
.
Note that set_coqlib
is used by some commands to process the -coqlib
option, as of now this sets both coqlib
and coqcorelib
; this part of the initialization will be eventually moved here.
The error handling policy of this module is simple for now: failing to initialize Coq's env will produce a fatal error, and the application will exit with code 1. No error handling is thus required on the client yet.
module Path : sig ... end
val init : unit -> t
init ()
will initialize the Coq environment.