The Windows version of Poly/ML checks for the presence of standard input
and standard output and only puts up its GUI window if they're not
provided. If you are running the program under something that provides
those streams, typically through pipes, Poly/ML will run in the
background and communicate through the pipes.
The only complication is with signals. There is no concept of
inter-process signals in Windows so there isn't a direct equivalent of
pressing control-C and getting back to the top level as there is on
Unix. The Windows version of Poly/ML sets up a DDE handler so that an
external program can generate an Interrupt exception in the Poly/ML
code. Because of this many people using Poly/ML on Windows actually use
Cygwin and build from source.
Regards,
David
Peter Bader wrote:
Hello all,
under Windows PolyML (I am using 5.3) starts its own window.
Is there a Windows Command Line version?
Why would I want it? I am using emacs with SML mode. This allows very
convenient syntax oriented editing of the source code and running an ML
"interpreter" in an extra emacs window/buffer, to which I can send fragments
of my source code.
I would love to switch to PolyML but keep my environment. I would appreciate
any help.
(I searched through the whole mailing list archive (polyml.mbox), but could
not find an answer).
Best regards
Peter Bader
(enthusiastic PolyML novice)
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