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Mercury on Windows
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This file documents the port of Mercury to Microsoft Windows.
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Contents
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* Supported versions of Windows
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* Building Mercury on Windows
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* Building Mercury for Windows on Linux
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* Using Mercury on 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 7
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* Windows 10
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* Windows 11
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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
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`sh` and `make`. This means that a Unix emulation environment is required to
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build Mercury on Windows.
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Three such environments are supported:
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1. [Cygwin](https://www.cygwin.com). See [README.Cygwin.md](README.Cygwin.md).
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2. [MSYS](https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/). See [README.MinGW](README.MinGW).
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3. [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org). See [README.MinGW](README.MinGW).
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Mercury can also be built using the MS Visual C compiler (MSVC), although one
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of the above environments is still required for the build process.
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See [README.MS-VisualC.md](README.MS-VisualC.md) for instructions on how to
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build Mercury with MSVC.
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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.cross.md](README.cross.md).
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Using Mercury on Windows
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On Windows systems the usual name for the Mercury compiler, `mmc`, conflicts
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with the name of the executable for the Microsoft Management Console.
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See the "Using the Mercury compiler" chapter of the
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[Mercury Users's Guide](https://mercurylang.org/documentation/documentation.html) for
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how to deal with this.
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