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@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ Setting up the build environment
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A Unix-like environment is required for building and installing Mercury.
Any one of [Cygwin](https://www.cygwin.com/), [MSYS](https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/)
or [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org) will suffice.
[Cygwin](https://www.cygwin.com/) or [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org) will
suffice.
A Unix-like environment is *not* required in order to use Mercury once it
has been installed.
To make MSVC and its supporting tools available under the Cygwin, MSYS or MSYS2
To make MSVC and its supporting tools available under the Cygwin or MSYS2
shells do the following:
1. Open the Visual Studio Command Prompt.
@@ -42,11 +42,7 @@ shells do the following:
with Visual Studio (e.g. `vcvarsall.bat`, `vcvars32.bat` or `vcvars64.bat`) to
set up the environment for MSVC.
2. Enter the following command to start the MSYS shell:
C:\> C:\MinGW\MSYS\1.0\msys.bat
or this one to start the MSYS2 shell with 32-bit MSVC:
2. Enter the following command to start MSYS2 shell 32-bit MSVC:
C:\> C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -use-full-path -mingw32
@@ -58,7 +54,7 @@ shells do the following:
C:\> C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.bat
(We assume the default installation locations for MinGW/MSYS and Cygwin above.)
(We assume the default installation locations for MSYS2 and Cygwin above.)
Users of MSYS2 should note that it is required that the configuration type
returned by autoconf match `*mingw*`; in particular it must *not* match
@@ -96,8 +92,8 @@ runtime.
On Cygwin, `configure` and `mmake` will do translation of Unix style paths, so
you may specify the installation directory using either a Unix- or
Windows-style path. On MSYS or MSYS2, you must use a full Windows-style path
with a drive letter, except that you must use `/` instead of `\` as a directory
Windows-style path. On MSYS2, you must use a full Windows-style path with a
drive letter, except that you must use `/` instead of `\` as a directory
separator. For example, this is acceptable:
```
@@ -157,7 +153,7 @@ The MSVC port currently has a number of limitations:
* When used directly from the Windows command prompt, mmake will not work.
You should use `mmc --make` instead. (`mmake` requires a POSIX-like shell
and GNU `make`; it will however work with the Cygwin or MSYS shells.)
and GNU `make`; it will however work with the Cygwin or MSYS2 shells.)
We do not intend to support `mmake` directly on Windows.
* Creation of shared libraries (DLLs) is not currently supported.
@@ -176,7 +172,7 @@ Post-installation configuration
-------------------------------
The above instructions create a Mercury installation that targets MSVC that
works from within the Cygwin, MSYS or MSYS2 shells. If you want to be able to
works from within the Cygwin or MSYS2 shells. If you want to be able to
run the Mercury compiler directly from the Windows command prompt (e.g.
`cmd.exe`) then you need to manually edit some configuration files in the
installation. (In future releases, this will all hopefully be automated.)