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The others are even worse. I tried using OMake and apart from having some neat features like watching files and automatically recompiling it was an incredible pain of setting it up - mainly due to the strange programming language used in its build files. Also, it has seen 0 updates in the last years.

It already starts with the compiler, calling them manually is quite a pain, especially if you want include any kind of library, which is why ocamlfind is such a huge win.

Oasis isn't that bad apart from a few options that are tricky to get (or the fact that, as far as I know, there's no sane way to make it install executables to your ocamlfind directory, which makes it fairly unsuitable for PPX extensions). For the most part, it's about as easy/intuitive as using Cabal.

Yes, I am using it too, but too bad it is basically unmaintained since its author moved to work for Google. I had hoped it could generate many more files like config for Merlin or Makefiles for build systems than ocamlbuild.

You may be interested in https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-user-setup

I'm curious: The configuration file syntax is odd, but otherwise it tends to work. What are the additional problems?

Ah, yes, I parsed it wrong.