[mercury-users] Installation of the csharp grade

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Peter Ross wrote:

> On 9 January 2012 14:56, Julien Fischer wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Julien Fischer wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Peter Ross wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've tried installing the C# grade under windows for both 11.01 and
>>>> 11.07, and the both fail.
>>>>
>>>> I have installed cygwin and MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET 4.0.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that a command line in the format
>>>>
>>>>  csc Mercury/css/array.cs ...
>>>>
>>>> is generated when building the standard library, and the version of
>>>> csc from that windows SDK doesn't like the forward slash path
>>>> separator.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else managed to build using the MS tools?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, both 11.01 and 11.07 build for me on Windows under MinGW/MSYS.
>>> It's possible that Cygwin's path tranlsation is messing things up.
>>
>>
>> I will take a look at this on my machine.  Pete, can you please send
>> me a complete log of what you actually did, e.g. how configure was
>> invoked etc.
>>
> Install Microsoft Windows SDK (I installed the lastest Windows SDK,
> windows 7 and .NET 4.0)
>
> Edit cygwin.bat to call SetEnv.cmd from the Windows SDK.
>
> Start cygwin via the "Cygwin Bast Shell", not "Cygwin Terminal"
>
> ./configure --prefix /usr/local/mercury-11.07
> --enable-libgrades=asm_fast.gc,asm_fast.gc.debug,csharp,java
>
> make install PARALLEL=-j2
>
> The MLOBJS in library/Mmakefile needs one extra level of backslash
> quoting, other wise you get an error ..runtimemercury_dotnet.cs not
> found, but once that is fixed you get errors about not being able to
> find array.cs, etc., etc.

Thanks.  I know about the problem with MLOBJS, it's because the Mercury
compiler doesn't do any path translation for the --link-object option.

Julien.