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MLton is run from the command line with a collection of options followed by a file name and a list of files to compile, assemble, and link with.
<pre>mlton [option ...] file.{c|mlb|o|sml} [file.{c|o|s|S} ...]
</pre>The simplest case is to run <tt>mlton foo.sml</tt>, where <tt>foo.sml</tt> contains a valid SML program, in which case MLton compiles the program to produce an executable <tt>foo</tt>. Since MLton does not support separate compilation, the program must be the entire program you wish to compile. However, the program may refer to signatures and structures defined in the <a href="BasisLibrary">Basis Library</a>. <p>
Larger programs, spanning many files, can be compiled with the <a href="MLBasis">ML Basis system</a>. In this case, <tt>mlton foo.mlb</tt> will compile the complete SML program described by the basis <tt>foo.mlb</tt>, which may specify both SML files and additional bases.
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Last edited on 2010-04-06 17:48:05 by <span title="129.21.75.73"><a href="MatthewFluet">MatthewFluet</a></span>.
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