Release 11.01 - Contents

The Mercury distribution is split into three parts. The "mercury-compiler" distribution contains:

• an autoconfiguration script
• the Mercury source for the compiler
• the Mercury source for the standard library
• the automatically generated C source for the compiler and the standard library
• the runtime system (written in C)
• Hans Boehm's conservative garbage collector for C
• an integrated procedural and declarative debugger
• some profilers
• some utility programs, including a make front-end for Mercury with automatic dependency recomputation
• the Mercury language reference manual
• the Mercury library reference manual
• the Mercury user's guide
• the Mercury frequently asked questions list
• the Prolog to Mercury transition guide
• some sample Mercury programs

The "mercury-extras" distribution contains some extra libraries for:

• dynamic linking
• backtrackable (trailed) destructive update
• arithmetic
  • arithmetic on complex and imaginary numbers
• UIs:
  • graphics using Tk, OpenGL/GLUT, Xlib, Allegro or Cairo.
  • text interfaces using curses
  • processing HTML forms using the CGI interface
• interfacing:
  • XML parsing
  • POSIX interface
  • an ODBC database interface
• the Morphine trace analysis system
• two curses bindings, one more complete than the other
• a general purpose lexer
• Moose, a parser generator for Mercury.

The "mercury-tests" distribution contains a test suite.