[mercury-users] Alternative binary distribution for Mercury on Windows

[Ian MacLarty]

Hi Sergey,

Would you mind posting the innoSetup scripts you used to create the  
installer?

Cheers,

Ian.

On 1 Feb 2006, at 12:32, Sergey Khorev wrote:

> Long time ago I created InnoSetup-based distribution for my personal  
> purposes and finally found some time to share it.
>
> http://cyber.miem.edu.ru/~iamphet/mercury/mercury-0.12.2_FULL_BIG.exe
> (20Mb) includes grades asm_fast.gc, asm_fast.gc.tr,  
> asm_fast.gc.tr.debug, hlc.gc, hlc.gc for MSVC,  
> asm_fast.gc.tr.decldebug, asm_fast.gc.memprof, GCC, UnxUtils
>
> http://cyber.miem.edu.ru/~iamphet/mercury/mercury 
> -0.12.2_FULL_NORMAL.exe
> (13Mb) includes grades asm_fast.gc, asm_fast.gc.tr.debug, hlc.gc,  
> hlc.gc for MSVC, GCC, UnxUtils
>
> Excerpt from README (sorry for my poor English):
>
> I don't like using Cygwin just for dozen of Unix utils required by mmc  
> and
> mmake so I've tried to create relatively self-contained package to use  
> with
> MinGW and MSVC. So I took required binaries from http://unxutils.sf.net
> and http://mingw.org.
>
> mmc.bat, mdb.bat, mprof.bat and mmake.bat just invoke sh.exe to execute
> corresponding (slightly tweaked) scripts.
>
> Documentation has been converted to CHM format. Apart from convenient  
> browsing
> it provides you with an index of chapters and full-text search.
>
> Samples, extras, Emacs and Vim support files are included as well.
>
> InnoSetup provided an excellent compression ratio for the installer.
>
>
> Requirements
> ------------
>
> 1) Microsoft Windows :) Batch files use cmd extensions, so they  
> probably
> will work only on Windows 2000 and above.
> 2) Microsoft Visual C++ (6.0/7.0/7.1 or free Visual C++ Toolkit) if  
> you want
> to use hlc.gc grade for MSVC.
>
>
> Limitations
> -----------
>
> File paths with spaces don't work reliably now.
>
>
> Quick start
> -----------
>
> Installer doesn't create or alter any environment variables or system
> directories/files. It creates shortcuts for command prompt with  
> Mercury added
> to PATH (just like Visual Studio). Click shortcut, then cd to `samples`
> directory and issue `mmc eliza`. Or, to test `mmake`::
>
> mmake eliza.depend
> mmake eliza
>
> This should create `eliza.exe`.
>
> Mercury doesn't like DOS-style end of line (CR LF), so I added  
> `dos2unix`
> utility to convert text files to Unix format.
>
>
> Customising Installation
> ------------------------
>
> Installation can be fine-tuned by creating/editing `bin/user.bat` and
> `bin.vc/user.bat` for MinGW and MSVC variants accordingly.
> Normally installer writes there some default preferences.
>
>
> Vim Support Files
> -----------------
>
> In addition to the stock Mercury files, there are other files in
> `vim` subdirectory. `ftplugin/mercury.vim` allows you to use ``:make``  
> command
> to build Mercury files on Win32 with `mmake`. If you want to use  
> Mercury with
> MSVC, set variable `mercury_use_msvc` in your `_vimrc`.
> In addition, `plugin/mercury_commands.vim` provides:
>   1) ``:Mmc [arg1] ...`` invokes `mmc.bat` redirecting error messages  
> to
> `quickfix` window. If no arguments were supplied, it passes current  
> filename.
>   2) ``:Mmake [arg1] ...`` invokes `mmake.bat` and shows errors from
> current file in the `quickfix` window.
>   3) ``:Mmerr`` shows last error message from Mmc or Mmake
>   4) ``:Mmod name [interface_imports [implementation_imports]]``  
> inserts
>     module template
>   5) ``:Mmain name [interface_imports [implementation_imports]]``  
> inserts
>     module template with the `main` predicate
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