[mercury-users] MSIL backend : missing mercury.runtime ?

[Peter Ross]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 08:22:02AM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> On 30-Mar-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 29-Mar-2001, Pavel Zolnikov <pavelzolnikov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > But for library you need to build  private_builtin__c_code.cpp which can be
> > > built with MSVC only, right ?
> > > I'm not sure - because all this configure stuff is like magic for me ;-)
> > 
> > The *.cpp files used for the .NET back-end can only be built with MSVC, yes.
> > But it will compile those .cpp files with MSVC even if you configured
> > to use gcc as the C compiler.  For compiling .cpp files (in IL grades),
> > Mmake uses the $(MS_CL) variable, rather than the $(CC) variable.
> > 
> > $(MS_CL) defaults to `cl'.  You need to have `cl' in your PATH
> > (I don't think this is mentioned in README.DotNet -- perhaps that
> > was the problem?).
> 
> It's possible that some of the .NET make variables won't be
> configured right if you install a bindist.  And they will never be
> configured right if you installed anything before you installed the .NET
> beta.  This might be the problem Pavel is experiencing.
> 
It may be the problem that I reported to mercury-bugs, in that the
configure script in the source distribution was built with autoconf v2.9
which doesn't seem to do the right thing when trying to detect ilasm on
the cygwin platform.

Pete
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