Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-25 Thread David Matthews
Rob, On 24/05/2014 14:29, Rob Arthan wrote: What exactly do you mean by a console application? I mean the kind of thing that Visual Studio creates if you select “Win32 Console Application” when you create a new C++ project. I.e., a program with the standard C interface to the operating system

Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-24 Thread Rob Arthan
David, On 20 May 2014, at 13:07, David Matthews wrote: > Rob, > > On 20/05/2014 06:57, Rob Arthan wrote: >> I agree that it wasn’t very clear whether this was thought to be a >> bug in the MinGW header files or not. > > I may have a look and see if this is something I can fix easily but there'

Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-20 Thread Makarius
On Mon, 19 May 2014, David Matthews wrote: Using Cygwin might be a possibility if you are thinking of providing a separate GUI. The package that Makarius has provided for running Isabelle on Windows uses Poly/ML under Cygwin but all the user interaction is through jEdit. Isabelle/jEdit is m

Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-20 Thread Makarius
On Tue, 20 May 2014, David Matthews wrote: Cygwin does work for me, but unfortunately, having to install it is a stopper for some of my potential users. I tried compiling under MinGW with __CYGWIN__ set, but it doesn’t work. Would it be difficult to separate the choice between polystub.c bei

Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-20 Thread David Matthews
Rob, On 20/05/2014 06:57, Rob Arthan wrote: I agree that it wasn’t very clear whether this was thought to be a bug in the MinGW header files or not. I may have a look and see if this is something I can fix easily but there's no point if they are going to fix in Mingw anyway. Last time I use

Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-19 Thread Rob Arthan
David, On 19 May 2014, at 15:42, David Matthews wrote: > Rob, > > On 18/05/2014 17:36, Rob Arthan wrote: >> I am trying to understand my options for using Poly/ML on MinGW for >> building windows applications coded in Standard ML. >> >> There is a bug reported in http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw

Re: [polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-19 Thread David Matthews
Rob, On 18/05/2014 17:36, Rob Arthan wrote: I am trying to understand my options for using Poly/ML on MinGW for building windows applications coded in Standard ML. There is a bug reported in http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2043/ that you have to work around to build Poly/ML with the current

[polyml] Poly on MinGW

2014-05-18 Thread Rob Arthan
I am trying to understand my options for using Poly/ML on MinGW for building windows applications coded in Standard ML. There is a bug reported in http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2043/ that you have to work around to build Poly/ML with the current MinGW. The work-around is to run configure