<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 May 2012 03:56, Paul Bone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbone@csse.unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">pbone@csse.unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:02:47PM +0200, Gabor Bakos wrote:<br>
> I have tried to contact the users mailing list multiple times (email,<br>
> through gmane news) without success. Is there a problem with it? (I see<br>
> only one message on the web archive of it<br>
</div>> <<a href="http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/mailing-lists/mercury-users/mercury-users.201205/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/mailing-lists/mercury-users/mercury-users.201205/index.html</a>>,<br>
<div class="im">> although in gmane.comp.lang.mercury.general there seems to be others.)<br>
> Thanks, gabor<br>
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</div>We'll look into that.<br></blockquote><div class="im">Thanks, as Julien Fischer realised, my previous attempt to subscribe to the list was not successful. Today, I could do that (and hopefully this message will reach the list server).<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There are a lot of targets, as you suggest.<br>
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Our solution is to bootstrap through a C compiler, such as GCC.<br>
<br>
The tarballs that you'll find on the website have pre-built C code. They will<br>
use that to build the compiler if you don't already have a Mercury compiler<br>
installed.<br>
<br>
A C compiler _is_ a requirement.<br></blockquote><div>Thanks. I have to admit I prefer a .jar file, or a .NET .dll, but I guess that is just a personal preference. :)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">There is vim syntax highlighting support. Once you download Mercury there is a<br></div>
vim subdirectory with the files. There's nothing else at this stage, we<br>
encourage contributions :-)<br></blockquote><div>I am thinking of doing a simple eclipse plugin for Java target, I hope it will not be too hard to do with Xtext. Although I cannot promise anything yet. The most problematic part might be the build system in the beginning I guess (and after that code completion, ...). In case I can do something usable is there an API for Mercury that I can use for querying the compatible types and similar things? (Sorry, I have not dig deep in the compiler yet.)<br>
</div></div>Thanks for your answers. Cheers, gabor<br>