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Installation

MLton runs on X86 machines under Linux. MLton is distributed in source and binary RPM and gzipped tar format. To install the binary RPM, run the following command.

rpm -i mlton-20011006-1.i386.rpm
The binary RPM installs the following files and directories.

/usr/local/bin/mllex

A lexer generator.

/usr/local/bin/mlprof

A profiler (see Section 6).

/usr/local/bin/mlton

A script to call the compiler. This script may be moved anywhere, however, it makes use of files in /usr/local/lib/mlton.

/usr/local/bin/mlyacc

A parser generator.

/usr/local/man/man1/mlprof.1

Man page for mlprof.

/usr/local/man/man1/mlton.1

Man page for mlton.

doc/mlton-20011006

Directory containing the user guide, example SML programs (in the examples dir), and license information.

/usr/local/lib/mlton

Directory containing libraries and include files needed during compilation.