mercury/.README.in

This directory contains the source distribution for the
Melbourne Mercury compiler, version @VERSION@.

See the file LICENSE for copyright and licensing information.

See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
In some cases, additional steps may be needed for particular operating systems
or particular architectures, so first read the README file for your particular
platform, if there is one:

    Documentation/README.AIX            AIX on POWER
    Documentation/README.FreeBSD        FreeBSD on Intel x86 and x86_64
    Documentation/README.HPUX           HPPA systems running HPUX
    Documentation/README.Linux          Linux on Intel x86 and x86_64
    Documentation/README.Linux-aarch64  Linux on AArch64 (ARM64)
    Documentation/README.Linux-PPC      Linux on PowerPC
    Documentation/README.Linux-m68k     Linux on Motorola 68000
    Documentation/README.MacOS          Apple Mac systems running Mac OS X
    Documentation/README.MS-Windows     Microsoft Windows
    Documentation/README.OpenBSD        OpenBSD on x86_64
    Documentation/README.Solaris        Solaris (SunOS) on SPARC or Intel x86.

The documentation sources are in the `doc' subdirectory.
The installation process will install INFO, HTML, and DVI versions under the
nominated installation prefix, by default /usr/local/mercury-@VERSION@.
It will also install Unix-style man pages under the same prefix.

The files RELEASE_NOTES, NEWS.md, Documentation/NEWS_*, LIMITATIONS.md,
and BUGS also contain useful information. If you are interested in looking
at the source code, the file compiler/notes/compiler_design.html is
a good place to start.

The `samples' directory contains some example Mercury programs.
There are also some additional Mercury programs and libraries
in the `extras' directory.

The Mercury home page is located at <https://www.mercurylang.org>.
There you can also find information about joining the mailing lists
for announcements and general discussion.