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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 "Cygwin" Unix emulation package from Cygnus.
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It should work on Windows 98 too, but we haven't tested that.
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This file documents how to install the binary distribution
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of Mercury on Windows using Cygwin.
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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 Cygwin
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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 a version of Cygwin that is
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compatible with the one that the binary distribution was compiled
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with. This will normally be specified in the filename of the
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Mercury binary distribution. For example, if the file name is
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mercury-0.8.1.pc-windows-cygwin-b20.1.tar.gz then it was compiled
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with version b20.1 of Cygwin, so you will need version b20.1
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(or any later version which preserves binary compatibility with b20.1).
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You can download Cygwin from <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/>.
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Follow the installation instructions that come with Cygwin.
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Make sure that the Cygwin binaries are in your PATH, that you have
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a /tmp directory, that you have a copy of sh.exe in /bin.
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Before continuing, check that `sh' and `gcc' work.
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For more information on Cygwin, see the Cygwin web site mentioned above.
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RUNNING CONFIGURE
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Just type
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sh configure
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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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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 name clash 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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