OCaml DevContainer

This repo can be used to launch an OCaml development environment using Docker and VSCode. It's based on the ocaml/opam2 Docker image, and uses the VSCode devcontainers feature. The environment comes with some commmon opam packages preinstalled.

Features

• Common IDE features (autocomplete, syntax highlighting, jump-to-definition, etc.) provided by the ocaml-lsp language server.
• Code formatting on save using ocamlformat and the ocamllabs.ocaml-platform extension.
• A fully functional Debian environment that can be accessed through the VSCode integrated terminal or using docker exec....
• Easy to adapt to your use case.

Requirements

• Docker
• VSCode
• Remote - Containers (ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers) extension

Usage

1. Clone this repo.
2. Start VSCode
3. Run the Remote-Containers: Open Folder in Container command.
4. Select this folder.

Included Opam Packages

• base
• core_kernel
• ounit2
• qcheck
• dune
• ocamlformat