How to set package path for fsharpc on Mac OS

Question

I installed FsUnit using NuGet on Mac OS. And I copied dll-s to the lib folder:

$ ls -la lib total 1336 drwxr-xr-x 5 demas staff 170 Dec 9 23:39 . drwxr-xr-x 17 demas staff 578 Dec 9 23:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 demas staff 488448 Dec 9 23:21 FsCheck.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 demas staff 39424 Dec 9 23:20 FsUnit.NUnit.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 demas staff 151552 Dec 9 23:20 nunit.framework.dll 

Here is my code:

 #light namespace Tests open NUnit.Framework open FsUnit module module1 = let inline public Square x = x * x; 

Now I am trying to compile my code, but I get error messages:

 $ fsharpc --lib:lib some.fs F# Compiler for F# 3.1 (Open Source Edition) Freely distributed under the Apache 2.0 Open Source License /Users/demas/temporary/under/some.fs(3,6): error FS0039: The namespace or module 'NUnit' is not defined /Users/demas/temporary/under/some.fs(4,6): error FS0039: The namespace or module 'FsUnit' is not defined /Users/demas/temporary/under/some.fs(9,7): error FS0039: The type 'TestFixture' is not defined 

It seems fsharpc cannot find my libraries. How can i fix this?

Answer 1

The compiler does not automatically examine all libraries. You need to use -r to explicitly specify the libraries that should be referenced:

 fsharpc --lib:lib -r:nunit.framework.dll -r:FsUnit.NUnit.dll -r:FsCheck.dll some.fs