This file documents the Mercury implementation, version rotd-2024-11-10.
Copyright © 1995–2012 The University of Melbourne.
Copyright © 2013–2024 The Mercury team.
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This guide describes the compilation environment of Mercury — how to build and debug Mercury programs.
• Introduction: | General overview. | |
• Filenames: | File naming conventions. | |
• Using mmc: | Compiling and linking programs with the Mercury compiler. | |
• Running: | Execution of programs built with the Mercury compiler. | |
• Using Mmake: | “Mercury Make”, a tool for building Mercury programs. | |
• Libraries: | Creating and using libraries of Mercury modules. | |
• Debugging: | The Mercury debugger ‘mdb’. | |
• Profiling: | Analyzing the performance of Mercury programs. | |
• Invocation: | List of options for the Mercury compiler. | |
• Environment: | Environment variables used by the compiler and utilities. | |
• Diagnostic output: | Controlling some aspects of compiler diagnostics. | |
• C compilers: | How to use a C compiler other than GNU C. | |
• Foreign language interface: | Interfacing to other programming languages from Mercury. | |
• Stand-alone interfaces: | Calling procedures in Mercury libraries from programs written in other languages. | |
• Index: |