[m-users.] Mercury on ARM

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Tycho Luyben wrote:

> 
> Ah that sounds great! I should not do the github then but the zip?

No, you should grab a source tarballs from our download site:
<http://dl.mercurylang.org/index.html>.

The archives generated by github will not contain the pre-generated
C files.

Cheers,
Julien.

> On Jun 3, 2013 4:53 PM, "Julien Fischer" <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>
>       Hi again,
>
>       On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Tycho Luyben wrote:
>
>             Is it possible to get Mercury working on ARM? I cannot find any
>             references to it, except from 2005 which is outdated. It seems because
>             of the C generation, it should be capable of compiling the compiler to
>             ARM from an Intel machine using a cross compiler? And then (if needed)
>             bootstrap with that? Any issues with that ? Did anyone do that?
> 
>
>       I should have read the last part of that a little more carefully.
>       You don't need a Mercury compiler to bootstrap the compiler.
>       The Mercury source distribution contains pre-generated C files, so
>       you should be able to boostrap the compiler with just a C compiler.
>       (Given the appropriate build tools, e.g. make etc, you should just
>       be able to compile it directly on your ARM machine.)
>
>       Cheers,
>       Julien.
> 
> 
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