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Release notes on the MS Windows port of Caml Special Light
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REQUIREMENTS:
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This port runs under Windows 95 and Windows NT on Intel-based machines.
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Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups are not supported. Windows NT
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on non-Intel processors has not been tested.
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The base bytecode system (cslc, csltop, csllex, cslyacc, ...) runs without
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any additional tools.
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Linking Caml bytecode with C code (cslc -custom) requires the
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Microsoft Visual C++ compiler version 4.0.
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The native-code compiler (cslopt) requires Visual C++ version 4.0
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and the Microsoft assembler MASM version 5.
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The cslmktop and cslcp commands are Bourne shell scripts.
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They can be run with the Korn shell available at
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ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/winnt/misc/ntsh01.zip.
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INSTALLATION:
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The binary distribution consists of a .zip archive file. This .zip
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contains long filenames and cannot therefore be unpacked with pkunzip
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version 2. Use either Winzip (shareware) or the NT/95 version of unzip
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(freeware):
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ftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/winnt/misc/wznt56.exe
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ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/WIN32/unz512xN.exe
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Unzipping the distribution creates (among others) the following
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directories and files:
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camlsl\cslwin.exe The toplevel application
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camlsl\cslwin.ini Its configuration file
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camlsl\bin\ The command-line compilers and tools
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camlsl\lib\ The standard library files
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Installing the toplevel application:
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Copy the file camlsl\cslwin.ini to the Windows system directory
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(e.g. C:\windows). This file assumes that the standard library resides
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in C:\camlsl\lib. If this is not the case, edit the file cslwin.ini
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and change the line that says
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CmdLine=cslrun C:\camlsl\lib\csltop -I C:\camlsl\lib
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to
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CmdLine=cslrun <caml_dir>\lib\csltop -I <caml_dir>\lib
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e.g.
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CmdLine=cslrun D:\lang\camlsl\lib\csltop -I D:\lang\camlsl\lib
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Installing the command-line tools:
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You must add the camlsl\bin subdirectory to the PATH variable, e.g.
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set PATH=%PATH%;D:\lang\camlsl\bin
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Running directly the tools (e.g. typing D:\lang\camlsl\bin\cslc)
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will not work if the camlsl\bin directory is not in PATH, because cslc
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and the other tools will be unable to find the Caml runtime system
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cslrun.exe.
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The command-line tools assume that the standard library resides in
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C:\camlsl\lib. If you have unpacked it elsehwere, define the CAMLLIB
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environment variable to point to the standard library directory, e.g.
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set CAMLLIB=D:\lang\camlsl\lib
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RECOMPILATION FROM THE SOURCES:
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The command-line tools can be recompiled from the Unix source
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distribution (csl-X.YZ.tar.gz), which also contains the files modified
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for Windows.
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In addition to Visual C++ 4.0 and MASM 5, you will also need a healthy
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set of Unix / GNU utilities that understands long file names
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(see e.g. ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/).
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The bootstrap compilers provided in the Unix distribution (boot/cslc
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and boot/csllex) must be replaced by those from the binary Windows
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distribution (camlsl\bin\cslc.exe and camlsl\bin\csllex.exe).
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The sources for the toplevel graphical user interface are not
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publically available.
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RANDOM NOTES:
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* The VC++ compiler does a poor job on byterun/interp.c. Consequently,
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the performance of bytecode programs is about half of that obtained
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under Unix/GCC on similar hardware. GCC would give much better
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performance, but none of the currently available ports of GCC for
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Win32 is sufficiently complete, robust and stable to compile Caml
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Special Light.
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* The "num" and "str" libraries are available under Win32. The other
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external libraries ("unix", "threads", "camltk4") make heavy use of
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Unix system calls and require considerable work to run under Win32.
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CREDITS:
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The initial port of Caml Special Light to Windows NT was done by Kevin
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Gallo at Microsoft Research, who kindly contributed its changes to the
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Caml Special Light project.
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The graphical user interface for the toplevel is due to Jean-Marie
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Geffroy at INRIA Rocquencourt.
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