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This file documents the port of Mercury to MS Windows.
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Supported versions of Windows
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Mercury has been tested with the following versions of Windows:
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* Windows XP SP3
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* Windows 7
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* Windows Server 2008 R2
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It should also work with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista but we have
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not tested it with those.
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We no longer actively maintain support for older versions of Windows.
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Building Mercury on Windows
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The Mercury build process requires the use of a number of Unix tools such as sh
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and make. This means that a Unix emulation environment is required to build
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Mercury on Windows.
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Three such environments are supported:
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1. Cygwin (www.cygwin.com). See README.Cygwin.
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2. MSYS (www.mingw.org). See README.MinGW.
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3. MSYS2 (msys2.github.io). See README.MinGW.
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Mercury can also be built using the MS Visual C compiler, although one of
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the above environments is still required for the build process. See
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README.MS-VisualC for instructions on how to build Mercury with the
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MS Visual C compiler.
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NOTE: while a Unix emulation environment is required to build Mercury on
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Windows, one is NOT required to use Mercury on Windows.
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Building Mercury for Windows on Linux
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Alternatively, you can cross-compile Mercury on Linux with a MinGW
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cross-compiler. See README.MinGW-cross.
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