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- This is file install.txt for Moscow ML 1.42 for Linux/Unix (July 1997)
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- Moscow ML was compiled under Linux 2.0.12 with gcc 2.7.2, and requires
- 2 MB of RAM or more. The installation requires 3 MB disk space.
-
-
- INSTALLING MOSCOW ML (BINARIES ONLY) UNDER LINUX
-
- (1) For a personal installation, move to your home directory, and unpack
- the Moscow ML distribution using
-
- gzip -dc linux-mos14bin.tar.gz | tar xfv -
-
- This creates a directory ~/mosml with subdirectories
-
- mosml/ readme, install.txt
- bin/ mosml, mosmlc, mosmllex, mosmlyac, camlrunm
- copyrght/ copyright notices
- doc/ manual.dvi, mosmlref.dvi, ...
- examples/ a few example programs
- lib/ bytecode files and basis library units
- tools/ mosmldep, Makefile.stub
-
- (2) Edit the variables `stdlib' and `mosmlbin' in the scripts
- mosml/bin/mosml
- and mosml/bin/mosmlc
-
- (3) Edit the file mosml/lib/header to contain the absolute location of
- the camlrunm runtime system (usually /home/foo/mosml/bin/camlrunm).
-
- (4) Start Moscow ML by typing
- mosml
-
- To quit Moscow ML, type `quit();' or control-D.
-
-
- INSTALLING MOSCOW ML UNDER OTHER UNIXES
-
- If you have Linux, DEC MIPS+Ultrix, HPPA+HP/UX, Sparc+SunOS,
- Sparc+Solaris, SGI MIPS+IRIX 5, DEC Alpha+OSF/1, and possibly other
- systems, then you can install Moscow ML as follows:
-
- (1) choose a directory for the Moscow ML subdirectory to reside in,
- such as /usr/local/ for a systemwide installation, or ${HOME}
- for a personal installation.
-
- (2) download the Unix source files from
- ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/mos14src.tar.gz
-
- (3) unpack it by executing (in /usr/local, or ${HOME})
-
- gzip -dc mos14src.tar.gz | tar xvf -
-
- (4) change directory to mosml/src
-
- (5) edit file mosml/src/Makefile.inc to suit your system. Set
- MOSMLHOME to /usr/local/mosml, or ${HOME}/mosml. Also, the
- versions of /lib/cpp differ amoung operating systems; choose a
- suitable value of CPP for your system.
-
- (6) execute (in mosml/src)
-
- make clean
- make world
- make install
-
- (7) to check that the installation went well, you can try
- (7.1) * change directory to mosml/src/test
- * execute: mosml test.sml > result
- * diff result result.ok
- (7.2) * change directory to mosml/src/mosmllib/test
- * execute: mosml -P full test.sml > result
- * diff result result.ok
- Note that some of the test cases are suitable only for 32-bit
- architectures, and will fail on 64-bit architectures (such as DEC
- Alpha); this does not necessarily indicate that the Moscow ML
- implementation is wrong.
-
-
- EXTENT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION
-
- The current version 1.42 of Moscow ML
- * implements the Core language of Standard ML, as revised 1996
- * implements large parts of the new SML Basis Library
- * implements separate compilation and a limited version of the
- Standard ML Modules language, with signatures and structures
- but no functors
- * can produce compact stand-alone executables (a la Caml Light)
- * supports quotations and antiquotations, useful for metaprogramming
- * includes several new libraries and a new type `char'
-
-
- AUTHOR AND CREDITS
-
- Moscow ML was written by
- Sergei Romanenko (roman@keldysh.ru)
- Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Miusskaya Pl. 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia.
- and Peter Sestoft (sestoft@dina.kvl.dk),
- Department of Mathematics and Physics, Royal Veterinary and
- Agricultural University, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C,
- Denmark. Much of the work was done at the Technical University of
- Denmark, and while visiting AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA.
-
- Moscow ML owes much to:
- * the CAML Light implementation by Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez
- (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France); especially the Caml Light bytecode
- generator and the runtime system;
- * the ML Kit by Lars Birkedal, Nick Rothwell, Mads Tofte and David Turner
- (Copenhagen University, Denmark, and Edinburgh University, Scotland);
- * inspiration from the SML/NJ compiler developed at Princeton
- University and AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA; and
- * the good work by Doug Currie, Flavors Technology, USA, on the
- MacOS port and many improvements.
-