Date: 2025-07-29 A camel sitting atop a dune in the middle of the desert. He wears his hard hat as he takes a break from all the building and running of OCaml code. Want to start building your own? Follow the tracks below. Welcome to all Camleers We are back with another practical walkthrough for the newcomers of the OCaml ecosystem. We understand from the feedback we have gathered over the years that getting started with the OCaml Distribution can sometimes be perceived as challenging at first. That's why we keep it in mind when planning each post - to make your onboarding smoother and more approachable. Case in point: today's topic, which came to us during the making of our latest opam deep-dive : Opam 103: Bootstrapping a New OCaml Project with opam . It occured to us that we were assuming a level of familiarity with the toolchain that we had never explicitly explained or clarified.…