[m-rev.] for review: further MinGW README changes

[Ian MacLarty]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Julien Fischer
<juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> For review by anyone.
>
> Branches: main, 11.01
>
> Further work on the MinGW README file.
>
> README.MinGW:
>        Reword the introduction.
>
>        Mention that if the pthreads-win32 library is installed the the
>        high-level C parallel grades can be installed.
>
>        Mention that the low-level C parallel grades do not currently
>        work on Windows.
>
>        Add a section on reconfiguring the Mercury compiler so that it
>        can work directly from the Windows command prompt.
>
> Julien.
>
> Index: README.MinGW
> ===================================================================
...
> +(1) Check that no Unix style paths are used in the values of the following
> +    variables:
> + +     MERCURY_C_COMPILER
> +       MERCURY_JAVA_COMPILER
> +       MERCURY_JAVA_INTERPRETER
> +       MERCURY_CSHARP_COMPILER
> +       MERCURY_ERLANG_COMPILER
> +       MERCURY_ERLANG_INTERPRETER
> +

It might be worth elaborating on what the paths should look like.  For
example is c:/my/path (with forward slashes) allowed.  Do I need to
escape spaces in the paths?

Otherwise looks fine.

Ian.

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