[m-rev.] for post-commit review: update Windows README file

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Ian MacLarty wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Julien Fischer
> <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Paul Bone wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 03:56:04PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For post-commit review.
>>>>
>>>> Update the README file for Windows.
>>>>
>>>> README.MS-Windows:
>>>>        Update the lists of Windows versions we have tested on.
>>>>
>>>>        Mention that we don't actively support Windows 95, 98 etc.
>>>>
>>>>        Mention that a Unix emulation environment is not required
>>>>        to use Mercury on Windows; only build it.
>>>
>>> This looks fine.
>>
>> BTW, Ian says he will try things out on Vista.  (I think I have an XP SP2
>> VM about; if I do I will try that as well.)
>>
>
> I tried it yesterday, but configure never finished.  I ran the
> following command before going home last night:
>
> ./configure --prefix=c:/mercury-11.01-beta
> --enable-libgrades=asm_fast.gc,hlc.gc,java && make install
>
> When I got in this morning configure was (ironically) still stuck on
> "checking for kill".  Seems likely to be a MingGW issue and nothing on
> our side.

I will give it a try here.

Julien.