[MLton] Windows 7 x64 vs MLton r7999

[Matthew Fluet]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Matthew Fluet <fluet at tti-c.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
>>
>>> * msys uses an rxvt.exe which does not work under Windows7. Using msys
>>> -norxvt fixed this. I'll either modify the msys.bat to disable rxvt.exe or
>>> find a fixed rxvt.exe.
>>>
>>
>> What purpose does msys.bat serve in the context of a MLton-NNNN.msi
>> distribution?
>
>
> It works from the windows shell (cmd.exe), the double-click compiling of
> mlb/sml files in explorer / elsewhere, and the way MLton gets invoked from
> other windows apps (like eclipse).
>
> ie: It works in all the places where you are using MLton as a native windows
> compiler and not from some unix-like shell. The people in my office use
> mlton.bat almost exclusively. "I don't need that UNIX shit!" (obviously not
> my opinion)

I was asking about msys.bat (not mlton.bat), which seems precisely to 
launch up /bin/sh (that UNIX thing ;).