[mercury-users] build 0.13 fails on MSYS

[Jonathan Morgan]

On 6/27/06, Ian MacLarty <maclarty at cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:50:01PM +0200, valery at freesurf.fr wrote:
> > I just tried to build 0.13 beta dated 2006-06-21 on XP/MSYS/MinGW.
> >
> > Bootstrap is OK, but installation fails for grade hlc.par.gc.
> > As a result, the bin directory has no mmc.exe (even for the grades that
> > succeeded).
> >
>
> I believe hlc.par.gc grade requires pthreads, but MinGW
> doesn't support pthreads.  There is a pthreads emulation library for
> windows, but I've not tried it yet.

I tried it last year and it didn't work.  From memory it failed
parsing some of the Mercury runtime typedefs for pthreads types.  I
think I put something about it on the Mercury mailing lists.

I have never had trouble with it trying to install hlc.par.gc, and I
think Mercury will now only try and install *.par when pthreads.h is
present.

Jon
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