[MLton] mingwows

[Daniel C. Wang]

I understand this was fixed in 3.5 but  I could be wrong. It would be 
nice to have a POSIX environment for MLton without the need for Cygwin. 
Actually, we don't really need a POSIX environment, just a good 
implementation of the Posix structure for the Basis. So in a pure 
mingwin env what's missing from the POSIX structure?



Matthew Fluet wrote:

>
>> On Oct 14, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Daniel C. Wang wrote
>>
>>> If you want full POSIX support then SFU 3.5 is better than cygwin. 
>>> It avoids the GPL issues and is now a free download.
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, SFU requires XP/NT Pro and NTFS.
>> If you have 'home', it doesn't work. Ditto for FAT.
>
>
> Also, IIRC, SFU does not allow you to call Win32 API functions.  That 
> is, it's the microkernel idea: either you run under the SFU kernel or 
> you run under the Win32 kernel, and all of the services of the other 
> are unavailable.
>
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