[mercury-users] Mercury 0.13.1 on Visual C++ 2005

[Peter Ross]

On 7/9/07, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/07, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Alexsandro Soares wrote:
> >
> > >  Have anyone succeed in compiling Mercury 0.13.1 using Visual C++ 2005
> > >  Express? All my tries failed miserabily...
> >
> > You will need to provide us with more information than that.
> >
> > > Could you send me step-by-step instructions?
> >
> > The file README.MS-VisualC contains th instructions for building
> > Mercury using MSVC as the C compiler.  However, I strongly suspect
> > that 0.13.X will not build with it.  IIRC, Peter Ross did a bit of
> > work on the trunk so that it can be compiled with Visual C.  I don't
> > think that those changes have been merged onto the 0.13 branch.
>
> I tested it a few months before 0.13 and it wouldn't build at all,
> from memory.  It did a better job with the Visual C++ 2003 toolkit,
> but still couldn't build a working compiler.
>
Yes I recently did get the latest rotd building using Visual Studio
6.0, I didn't test it with any later versions, but they should work
modulo some minor problems.
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