<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:16 PM, John Reppy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t-johrep@microsoft.com">t-johrep@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I think that the problem is
with the path in the pathmap file. Switching to "c:\Users\..."
got rid of the parse error. By using `pwd –W` in my autoconf
script, I'm able to get working pathnames. Now I just need to
figure out my linking errors with glut.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Sorry I wasn't very clear. The pathmap is read directly by MLton. It doesn't come from the msys command-line. Therefore there is no translation applied by msys to turn /c/foo into c:/foo as MLton expects. So, yes, you need to use c:/foo in your mlb-path-map.<br>
<br>Any place in SML code where you use paths, you >must< use "c:/foo". MLton and MLton-compiled programs have no idea about this "/c/foo" stuff. Those paths only work when you use them on the msys/bash command-line where msys will auto-translates them. That means any config or data files you refer to within your source must not be using strings like "/c/bar" -- that file doesn't exist (unless you have a directory called 'c'). Similarly, mlb files, mlb-path-maps, and the names of invoked/piped helper program must not use the /c/ notation. In fact, ideally, even msys command-line invocation shouldn't use this notation, so as to avoid confusion. Just try to use c:/foo/bar everywhere.<br>
<br>That said, a parse error pointing at the bottom of the mlb file is a very
unhelpful and misleading error message, and someone familiar with that
part of the code should probably improve this.<br>
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And, again be warned that MLton on Vista is 100% untested!<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">BTW: I was not able to get
the latest version of mlton to build from svn using this version of
mlton. There are illegal characters in the generated C files.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div>That's strange. I've been compiling it without problems. There was a recent change committed that modified a few IntInf macro names and broke my unclean build. However, a clean build of svn/HEAD with the r6811 msi install should work (on XP/2003/etc).<br>
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