Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Roessler
David Matthews wrote: David Matthews wrote: Robert Roessler wrote: The execution issue happens early in the "Custom Build Step" use of PolyImport.exe: during startup, the polymain(...) function obtains the size of installed physical memory, and then defaults to using half of it. This issue co

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-24 Thread David Matthews
David Matthews wrote: Robert Roessler wrote: The execution issue happens early in the "Custom Build Step" use of PolyImport.exe: during startup, the polymain(...) function obtains the size of installed physical memory, and then defaults to using half of it. This issue comes up with both Unix

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-19 Thread Makarius
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, David Matthews wrote: We're not yet at the point of releasing this although much of the code is in SVN so it is possible to try it out. A major issue we're struggling with is exactly what constitutes a "project". For other languages and IDEs there's a clear distinction b

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-19 Thread David Matthews
Robert Roessler wrote: I am the author of the OCaml plugin for the Scintilla editing component, and would like to adapt it for Poly/ML (ML97)... while the changes needed are largely obvious (different keywords, changed/added token types, etc), I have two really basic questions: That sounds re

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-19 Thread David Matthews
Robert Roessler wrote: The execution issue happens early in the "Custom Build Step" use of PolyImport.exe: during startup, the polymain(...) function obtains the size of installed physical memory, and then defaults to using half of it. IMHO, this logic could use a new look, given modern system

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Roessler
Robert Roessler wrote: ... After this, I may well be interested in the IDE work mentioned for 5.3 (if there is still anything to do) - I have read the "IDE Communications Protocol" doc, so that at least suggests where you may be going on this. That didn't come out right - I am not suggesting th

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-18 Thread Robert Roessler
David Matthews wrote: Robert, Thanks for your comments. I'm replying to your comments about memory size separately since that applies as much to Unix as to Windows. Robert Roessler wrote: The 2 errors are just from using the newer dev environment: the _osver variable is no longer available. So,

Re: [polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-18 Thread David Matthews
Robert, Thanks for your comments. I'm replying to your comments about memory size separately since that applies as much to Unix as to Windows. Robert Roessler wrote: The 2 errors are just from using the newer dev environment: the _osver variable is no longer available. So, the 2 usages (line

[polyml] Building on Vista x64 with VS 2008

2009-06-17 Thread Robert Roessler
I have recently downloaded the PolyML 5.2.1 archive and built it on my 4GB Vista x64 SP2 box, feeding the supplied Visual Studio workspace to my VS 2008 SP1 dev environment. This went quite well, with only 2 build errors and one execution problem stopping the entire bootstrapping process! :)