09:13 <hannes> zmijunkie: to me it looks like your OCaml version on FreeBSD is slightly old, and the mirage version is old as well (please check with mirage --version to have 3.7.7); in case you need an OCaml (the one in ports is arcane), do 'opam switch create 4.10.0' followed by 'eval `opam env`' to get an up-to-date compiler and local environment

09:24 <zmijunkie> ah, thanx again - will try later this evening

09:26 <zmijunkie> .opam/default/bin/mirage --version

09:26 <zmijunkie> v3.6.0

09:26 <zmijunkie> on my mac this was: 3.7.7

09:26 <hannes> and what is your ocaml --version?

09:27 <zmijunkie> pkg info | grep ocaml

09:27 <zmijunkie> ocaml-opam-2.0.7 Source-based package manager for OCaml

09:27 <zmijunkie> ocaml-4.05.0_1 Objective Caml compiler and programming environment

09:27 <zmijunkie> i upgradd your ocaml-opam-2.0.6 port to ocaml-opam-2.0.7 as far as I remember (on my system)

09:27 <hannes> yes, the 4.05.0 is a bit too old (there are two ocaml releases each year, and we try to support at least the last two releases with mirage)

09:30 <hannes> so, from a library development perspective / mirage perspective, dropping old ocaml versions is always good (less code, more features). from a packaging perspective, FreeBSD still ships with 4.05.0 because some ports require such an old version (I guess the way forward is to have ocaml405, ocaml410, ... ports)

09:31 <zmijunkie> just typed "opam switch create 4.10.0" so tonight I can try this out ...

16:34 <zmijunkie1> solo5-hvt hello.hvt works now - thnx