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

[Paul Bone]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:46:19AM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> 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?
> 

It would instead assume that they are already open on fds 0, 1 and 2
(stderr), if it's assuming a unix system.


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