[MLton] MinGW hosted MLton

[Matthew Fluet]

> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0400, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> > This patch breaks a self-compile on Linux (and presumably on every 
> > non-Windows platform).  Although it is clear that 
> > Primitive.MLton.Platform.OS.useWindowsProcess  must be false on a 
> > non-Windows platform (and, hence,  usCwait  must be false), it is 
> > insufficiently optimized, leaving a reference to MLton_Process_cwait in 
> > the final object files, which are left unsresolved by libmlton.a on 
> > non-Windows platforms.
> 
> Eek! 
> I did more or less the same thing in reap from mlton/process.sml.
> Sorry about that; I didn't imagine it would affect linux.

I wouldn't have thought so either looking at the code.  There are a few 
places where we do similar things, mostly with the spawn stuff on windows.  
I was able to fix the MLton_Process_cwait problem by lifting the 
conditional out of the closure.