[MLton] Windows port of MLton using the Microsoft tools (e.g. without MinGW)

[Daniel C. Wang]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX

Have you considered SFU/SUA. You can download a full gcc tool chain for 
it from Microsoft!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93ff2201-325e-487f-a398-efde5758c47f&displaylang=en

The catch of course is that this subsystem is only available for Server 
class versions of windows or Vista Ultimate.


Nicolas Bertolotti wrote:
>  > As for assembler, I have been using Yasm <http://www.tortall.net/
>   
>> projects/yasm/> with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) because that
>> outputs assembler with gas syntax and Yasm, a Windows-native program
>> that outputs MS PE-COFF format (-fwin32 or -fwin64), is capable of
>> building the entire compiler.  There is a windows binary of Yasm
>> available for download.  (Yasm also accepts NASM syntax, which I am
>> using for pure-assembler pieces of a replacement gmp-library I have
>> been working on, though slowly of late.)  It would not be too much
>> trouble to use Yasm in the Makefile; if you want I will see what I
>> can do.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I didn't know Yasm so I've download it and tried to use it instead of 'gas'
> in order to build the MLton generated files for a simple "Hello world"
> program.
>
> In order to build using gas, I used :
> i686-pc-mingw32-as -o sources.1.obj sources.1.S
>
> Then, I changed my script in order to run :
> $ ./toto.pl sources.1.S
> $ yasm-0.6.1-win32.exe -p gas -w -X gnu -f coff sources.1.S -o sources.1.obj
> where toto.pl is a script which simply handles the __LINE__ directive that
> is used in the generated files.
>
> Unfortunately, the resulting binary crashes (similar crash than the one I
> has using MASM). Anyway, I'd prefer not adding a dependency to an additional
> external tool and rely only on Microsoft's (strange idea isn't it ?)
>
> The issue may be related to the cdecl & declspec stuff as mentioned by
> Matthew in a previous message so I'm going to take a look.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nicolas
>
>   
>> Cheers,
>> Pete
>>     
>
>
>
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