| 1 | =================== |
| 2 | System requirements |
| 3 | =================== |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Compiling the mlt tool requires a "working version" of SML/NJ. It's |
| 6 | best to use version 110.49 or later. Earlier versions have |
| 7 | incompatibilities, bugs, or both. You may have problems with any |
| 8 | version whatsoever, though, since this stuff uses some SML/NJ compiler |
| 9 | internals, and they may change often. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | ============= |
| 13 | Configuration |
| 14 | ============= |
| 15 | |
| 16 | If it is possible for you to modify a file /etc/mlt.conf, then you |
| 17 | can edit this file to set various options related to locations of |
| 18 | important files on your file system. In particular, you may want to |
| 19 | set the 'compiler', 'lib', and 'sml' options (documented in the |
| 20 | manual) if you have SML/NJ installed somewhere besides /usr/local/sml |
| 21 | or the mlt src directory somewhere besides /usr/local/share/mlt/src. |
| 22 | If you can't modify /etc/mlt.conf, then you can change the first |
| 23 | variable definition in src/config.sml to a different path, or you can |
| 24 | leave it as is and provide all configuration in the local mlt.conf |
| 25 | file for each project. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | You should also edit the paths in the simple install script in this |
| 28 | directory if you want to install system-wide binaries and scripts to |
| 29 | somewhere besides /usr/local/bin. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | These changes may be made for you by a fancy configuration program in |
| 32 | a future release. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | |
| 35 | ======== |
| 36 | Building |
| 37 | ======== |
| 38 | |
| 39 | All sources may be built by running the build script in this |
| 40 | directory. It does a clean re-build of all source files and stabilizes |
| 41 | all libraries produced. The build script is not appropriate for use |
| 42 | during development. Use the standard SML/NJ CM mechanisms if you are |
| 43 | changing the code and don't want to recompile everything each time. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [There is probably a better way to do this, but I haven't figured one |
| 46 | out yet.] |