[mercury-users] Build error in cygwin

[Jeff Thompson]

On 6/9/2011 6:03 AM, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Jeff Thompson wrote:
>
>> Hello.  I'm trying to compile Mercury version 11.01 in cygwin inside 
>> Windows XP.  ./configure and make succeed.  When I enter:
>>
>> make install LIBGRADES=csharp
>>
>> I get the error:
>>
>> cygwin warning:
>>  MS-DOS style path detected: ..\runtime\mercury_dotnet.cs
>>  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: ../runtime/mercury_dotnet.cs
>> Making mer_std.dll
>> ** Error making `mer_std.dll'.
>> error CS2001: Source file `..runtimemercur
>> dotnet.cs' could not be found
>>
>> I can't find the makefile that is using \ instead of /.
>
> It is library/Mmakefile:378, specifically these line:
>
>    # Don't use Unix style paths with the Microsoft C# compiler.
>    ifeq ($(CSC),csc)
>    MLOBJS += ..\runtime\mercury_dotnet.cs
>    else
>    MLOBJS += ../runtime/mercury_dotnet.cs
>
> The above is a workaround for the fact that --link-object does not yet
> do any path conversion.

Thanks!  That worked. I set both lines to:
MLOBJS += ../runtime/mercury_dotnet.cs

cygwin uses the Mono compiler. Perhaps Mono doesn't have a problem with 
Unix style paths?

- Jeff

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