Release support for building against ocaml 5

[chenrui333]

👋 OCaml 5 has been released for more than a year, it would be good to cut a release for supporting it.

relates to:

• Update to OCaml 4.14 #1366
• ocaml 5.1.0; ocaml@4 4.14.1 (new formula); ledit 2.06 Homebrew/homebrew-core#154837

[WardBrian]

I don’t believe there are any source changes needed to build the current state of the master branch under OCaml 5. If you’re aware of any please let me know.

The Stan project follows a roughly 4 month release cycle, so the next release will be sometime in January.

For our own build/release process we will likely stick on 4.14 as long as it is supported while the windows picture for 5.x settles down, but on Unixes it should be possible

[chenrui333]

yeah, I just released the ocaml5, and gonna trying to build from source now (it would be 2.23.2)

[chenrui333]

this is my local stanc3 build log with 2.33.1 against ocaml 5.1.0
https://gist.github.com/chenrui333/505b05c18329b7993564f5f608483bbb

# cc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-common -g  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -DCAML_NAME_SPACE   -DCAMLDLLIMPORT= -DNATIVE_CODE -DTARGET_arm64 -DMODEL_default -DSYS_macosx   -o clambda_checks.n.o clambda_checks.c
# cc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-common -g  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -DCAML_NAME_SPACE   -DCAMLDLLIMPORT= -DNATIVE_CODE -DTARGET_arm64 -DMODEL_default -DSYS_macosx   -o afl.n.o afl.c
# cc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-common -g  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT -DCAML_NAME_SPACE   -DCAMLDLLIMPORT= -DNATIVE_CODE -DTARGET_arm64 -DMODEL_default -DSYS_macosx   -o bigarray.n.o bigarray.c
# fiber.c:233:53: error: use of undeclared identifier 'Wosize_gc_regs'
#     value* bucket = caml_stat_alloc(sizeof(value) * Wosize_gc_regs);
#                                                     ^
# 1 error generated.

[WardBrian]

The output shows your system trying to downgrade to 4.12 as part of that build

[WardBrian]

The following works on my system (from the master branch):

$ opam switch create 5.1.0
$ eval $(opam env)
$ ./scripts/install_build_deps.sh
$ make

[chenrui333]

The following works on my system (from the master branch):

yeah, but it is only master branch, right? that is why I filed an this issue to see if we can cut off a new release to include the changes in #1366

[WardBrian]

We do not generally cut (non-bugfix) releases except for as part of the Stan release cycle

[chenrui333]

when would be the next release then?

[WardBrian]

The Stan project follows a roughly 4 month release cycle, so the next release will be sometime in January, version 2.34