Cygwin cross compiler

[Matthew Fluet]

Oops, I don't think this went out to you, Anoq.

>From fluet@suzy-q.cs.cornell.edu Wed Mar 13 16:58:35 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:41:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew Fluet <fluet@suzy-q.cs.cornell.edu>
To: MLton@sourcelight.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin cross compiler

> But - symlink or ldconfig - now mlton won't run. I get:
> 
> Out of memory (setHeapParams)
> 
> when running mlton -v or even just mlton.

Then you must be running a 2.2 kernel.  The functions to get the amount of
RAM available are now using 2.4 kernel specific structure elements.

Among the options are:
1. update your kernel to 2.4
2. always run mlton with "@MLton fixed-heap XXX --" to force the heap size
(and avoid the RAM lookup).  You can edit the /usr/local/bin/mlton script
to do this automatically
3. complain loudly to the MLton developers ;)

I've lasted with option 2 for a while now.  On the downside, you also need
to include this option on any program compiled by MLton and run on a 2.2
kernel, because the RAM lookup functions are in the runtime system which
is linked into every program.