Re: Problems porting from old Compilation Manager

Hello,

I made changes for mlj that can work with a newer nj compiler

http://users.tkk.fi/~vnorrman/mlj/mlj0.2e-src.tar.gz

  - Vesa

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Colin Fleming wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to compile MLj, the SML to JVM compiler. The project is
> pretty well abandoned, and they recommend compiling it with a very old
> version of SML/NJ (110.0.7) which I couldn't get to compile on OSX.
> That version uses the old CM, so when I try to compile with the most
> recent version, it fails. The culprit seems to be the build.sml file:
>
> val path =
>  case OS.Process.getEnv "BOOTCLASSPATH" of
>    NONE =>
>    (print
>  "\nSet BOOTCLASSPATH to the zip or jar file containing system classes\n";
>     OS.Process.exit OS.Process.failure)
>
>  | SOME path => path;
>
> val version_id = #version_id Compiler.version;
> val newer = hd version_id > 110 orelse hd (tl version_id) > 0;
> if newer then CM.set_root "sources2.cm" else ();
> OS.FileSys.chDir "src";
> CM.make ();
> Version.compileTime := Date.toString (Date.fromTimeLocal (Time.now ()));
> SMLofNJ.Internals.GC.messages false;
>
> PackageManager.setBootClassPath (Path.pathToList path);
>
> if Make.makeAndFreezeBasis (true, "build.log")
> then SMLofNJ.exportFn ("../bin/mlj-jdk1.1.1", TopLevel.main)
> else (print "\nFailed to build basis\n"; OS.Process.exit OS.Process.failure);
>
> I managed to make some progress by commenting the CM.set_root line and
> adjusting the CM.make command to 'CM.make "sources2.cm"', but then the
> subsequent lines fail because it can't find Version or PackageManager.
> Did something change with the visibility of compiled structures in the
> switch to the new CM? Can I explicitly import those structures somehow
> in the new one?
>
> Apologies if the question is very basic, I'm very new to SML.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Colin
>
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