This file documents the Mercury implementation, version rotd-2024-12-21.
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: |