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Mercury on Windows

This file documents the port of Mercury to Microsoft Windows.

Contents

  • Supported versions of Windows
  • Building Mercury on Windows
  • Building Mercury for Windows on Linux
  • Using Mercury on Windows

Supported versions of Windows

Mercury has been tested with the following versions of Windows:

* Windows 7
* Windows 10
* Windows 11

We no longer actively maintain support for older versions of Windows.

Building Mercury on Windows

The Mercury build process requires the use of a number of Unix tools such as sh and make. This means that a Unix emulation environment is required to build Mercury on Windows.

Three such environments are supported:

  1. Cygwin. See README.Cygwin.md.

  2. MSYS. See README.MinGW.

  3. MSYS2. See README.MinGW.

Mercury can also be built using the MS Visual C compiler (MSVC), although one of the above environments is still required for the build process. See README.MS-VisualC.md for instructions on how to build Mercury with MSVC.

NOTE: while a Unix emulation environment is required to build Mercury on Windows, one is NOT required to use Mercury on Windows.

Building Mercury for Windows on Linux

Alternatively, you can cross-compile Mercury on Linux with a MinGW cross-compiler. See README.cross.md.

Using Mercury on Windows

On Windows systems the usual name for the Mercury compiler, mmc, conflicts with the name of the executable for the Microsoft Management Console. See the "Using the Mercury compiler" chapter of the Mercury Users's Guide for how to deal with this.