[m-rev.] for review: windows compatibility

[Ralph Becket]

Ian MacLarty, Tuesday,  6 September 2005:
> For review by anyone.
> 
> These changes make it possible to compile Mercury programs without cygwin
> (using mingw gcc).  Cygwin is still required to build the compiler of course.
> mmc also obviously doesn't work since it's a bash script (you have to
> set all the appropriate environment variables manually and call
> mercury_compile.exe directly).

Great!

> I was thinking of changing mmc to a C program to make it more
> portable.  Would there be any objections to this?

Excellent idea.

> Fact tables will not work on windows since the code relies on some unix
> commands (like sort).
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 10
> Branches: main and 0.12
> 
> Various changes to make Mercury more compatible with Windows.

Looks fine to me.

-- Ralph
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