[mercury-users] I am not able to compile Mercury 0.13.1

[Peter Wang]

On 2008-08-05, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Eduardo Costa wrote:
>
>> Hi, Julien.
>> Can I send a (somewhat) large package to the list?
>
> I think the list has a limit of 100Kb - if it exceeds that just
> break it into separate posts.
>
>> There is another issue.
>> My main interest is the use of Mercury on Windows. I believe that Windows
>> programmers find little support if they want to use Mercury. One must
>> understand that people who work with Windows are not used to compile from
>> sources; they need binaries.  Besides this, if one works with a Graphical
>> User Interface, Mercury requires a dos box to function properly; programs
>> compiled without the dos box are not launched.
>
> I don't understand that last bit.

Could it be that the io module tries to open input and output streams on
startup, and fails if the program is not running within a terminal window?

Peter

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