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INTRODUCTION
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Mecury has been ported to Windows 95 and Windows NT
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using the gnu-win32 Unix emulation package from Cygnus.
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This file documents how to install the binary distribution
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of Mercury on Windows 95 or Windows NT using gnu-win32.
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(Note: we don't have any plans for a port to Windows 3.1.)
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PREPARATION
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To use or install Mercury on Windows, you need to first get gnu-win32
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from Cygnus, and install it.
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(If you're going to use a binary distribution of Mercury for Windows,
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you need to make sure that you get the same version of gnu-win32 that
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the binary distribution was compiled with.)
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You can download gnu-win32 from <ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32>.
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To install gnu-win32, make a directory say D:\CYGNUS on a file
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system that supports long filenames, and unpack the archives
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there. Make sure that you have C:\tmp and C:\bin directories.
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Copy sh.exe from D:\CYGNUS\H-i386-cygnus\bin to C:\bin.
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Make sure C:\bin is first in your PATH and D:\CYGNUS\H-i386-cygnus\bin
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is second. Make sure that "." is somewhere in your path.
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Also set these environment variables:
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GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=//D/CYGNUS/H-i386-cygnus/lib/gcc-lib
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C_INCLUDE_PATH=//D/CYGNUS/H-i386-cygnus/i386-cygwin32/include
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Before continuing, check that `bash' and `gcc' work.
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For more information on gnu-win32, see <ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32>
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or <http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/>.
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RUNNING CONFIGURE
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Configure with either
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sh configure i386-ms-win95
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or
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sh configure i386-ms-winnt
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RUNNING MAKE INSTALL
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Just type
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make install
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USING MERCURY
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Once you've finished installing, you need to add the appropriate
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directory, normally /usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/bin, to your PATH.
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But be careful where you add it: it is important to still make sure
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that C:\bin is first in your PATH, and that "." is last in your PATH.
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You should be able to read the HTML version of the Mercury
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documentation, which by default gets installed in the directory
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/usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/lib/mercury/html,
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using Netscape or MS Internet Explorer. Or you can get a copy
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of GNU Emacs for NT and use it to browse the INFO version in
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/usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/lib/mercury/info.
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There may still be some problems with case-insensitive filenames
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and the nameclash between `mmake' and `Mmake'. If you run into any
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such problems, rename the `Mmake' file in each subdirectory to `Mmakefile'.
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