Re: using MLton on Raspberry Pi, with Raspbian

Christopher Cramer <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Jul 2017 21:41:17 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ml.mlton.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 01:47:07PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:
> I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi 3, on which I'm running the
> recommended Raspbian flavor of Debian.  And while Raspbian includes
> a 'mlton' package, it depends on a 'mlton-compiler' package, which
> I cannot find.  I'll cross-compile if I have to, but I'm hoping
> a savvy user might know how to get MLton installed on the Pi.
> 
> Any ideas?

MLton on ARM uses the C backend (emitting C source and then compiling
with gcc), which will generally require more than the 1 gig of RAM
that the Raspberry Pi has. I imagine that cross-compiling is the
only way to compile SML programs for it.

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