[m-dev.] Mercury port to WinNT native

[Peter Ross]

On 03-Oct-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 02-Oct-1998, Renaud Paquay <rpa at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > [...] as a part of the ARGO project,
> > we plan to convert the whole mercury run-time into a native Win32-DLL
> > to remove the dependency with CygWin.dll. (and to reduce the size of
> > the "Hello world" executable file.)
> 
> 
> However, the code in the current Mercury distribution also contains a
> number of places where some minor dependencies on GCC extensions have
> accidentally crept into our source code.  Peter Ross is currently in
> the process of fixing those.  I would advise that you delay trying to
> port to MS C until after we have fixed them.
> 

On Friday (Oct 30), I submitted the last of the changes which allowed 
the mercury compiler to compile using lcc, cc (sparc) and cc (alpha) 
in the grade `none.gc'.

Pete.