[mercury-users] build 0.13 fails on MSYS

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Jonathan Morgan wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, as of the other day it will only install hlc.par.gc if pthreads.h
exists.  (If you want the other .par grades you still need to specify them
manually.)

Julien.
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