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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Perhaps “.\hello.exe”? (That “.” Is not in your PATH?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> users [mailto:users-bounces@lists.mercurylang.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Noah Scott Goldman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 06, 2016 7:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.mercurylang.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [m-users.] Compiler trouble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",serif">I'm trying to compile
</span><span style="font-family:"Hack",serif">hello.m</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",serif"> which, as you might have guessed, is a "hello world" program. I'm running Windows 8.1 and installed Mercury from the binary distribution. When I run
the compiler, everything seems to work fine, except there's no .exe file. I can't figure it out.<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Hack",serif">> mercury --make -o hello.exe hello<br>
Making Mercury\int3s\hello.int3<br>
Making Mercury\ints\hello.int<br>
Making Mercury\cs\hello.c<br>
Making Mercury\objs\hello.obj<br>
hello.c<br>
Making hello.exe<br>
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> hello<br>
'hello' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.<br>
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> hello.exe<br>
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<span style="font-family:"Hack",serif">'hello.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",serif">Is this a permission issue? As far as I can tell, it produces every other file, just not the .exe.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Noah G.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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