Re: installation instructions

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Jeremy Dawson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I couldn't find installation instructions - there's a page
> http://www.mlton.org/Installation
> which tells you what happens if you succeed (and as it puts stuff in
> /usr/lib and /usr/bin it won't succeed if you don't have the right
> permissions).

There is also the page:
  http://www.mlton.org/SelfCompiling
that has some more details on building from source.

> How do I actually (1) install mlton and (2) install it somewhere other
> than /usr/{lib,bin}
>
> I did try typing "make" which seemed to do a lot but finished up with
> make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/local/mlton/mlton/front-end'
> rm -f ml.lex.*
> no-mllex ml.lex
> make[4]: no-mllex: Command not found
> make[4]: *** [ml.lex.sml] Error 127
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/mnt/local/mlton/mlton/front-end'
> make[3]: *** [front-end/ml.lex.sml] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/local/mlton/mlton'
> make[2]: *** [compiler] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/local/mlton'
> make[1]: *** [all-no-docs] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/local/mlton'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

When building from sources, there are a number of components that get
built.  The first is the runtime system, which is written in C.
That's the "seems to do a lot" portion of the build that you saw.  The
next is building the compiler proper, which is written in SML (and
using SML scanner- and parser-generator tools); that's where you are
seeing failure, since the mllex tool cannot be found (and, presumably,
would go on to not find the mlyacc tool nor a mlton compiler).

As Ian mentioned, you will need to install a binary version of MLton
if you wish to build from source.

If you want to install the binary version somewhere other than
"/usr/local/", then simply proceed something like:

[matthew@shadow ~]$ cd ~/sw/
[matthew@shadow sw]$ mkdir mlton-20130715-1
[matthew@shadow sw]$ cd mlton-20130715-1
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ cp
~/Downloads/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-linux.tgz .
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ tar -xzf mlton-20130715-1.amd64-linux.tgz
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ mv usr/bin bin
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ mv usr/lib/mlton lib
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ rmdir usr/lib
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ mv usr/man man
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ mv usr/share/doc/mlton doc
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ rmdir usr/share/doc
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ rmdir usr/share
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ rmdir usr
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ sed --in-place '/^lib=/s;.*;lib=`cd
"$dir/../lib" \&\& pwd`;' bin/mlton
[matthew@shadow mlton-20130715-1]$ cd ..
[matthew@shadow sw]$ ./mlton-20130715-1/bin/mlton
MLton 20130715 (built Wed Jul 17 03:58:25 EDT 2013 on shadowvm02)

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