ML-BUILD(1)

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💅 ML-BUILD(1) — the build tool era ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to ml-build(1) — a command-line build tool for SML/NJ programs, and honestly? she's iconic. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ml-build — command-line build tool for SML/NJ programs. that's the whole vibe, no cap. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ml-build [OPTIONS] group.cm [main [heap-image]]

look at her. three optional little guys trailing after the options and the .cm file. main, then heap-image. the way that she just takes them. 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ML-Build is a command-line tool for building applications from SML source files, and she does it using the Compilation Manager and the SML/NJ compiler. literally her whole job. highkey ate. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay here's the part where she gets ✨customizable✨ — every single flag, right here, nothing skipped:

  • -Cctl=value — set the control ctl to value. give her a control name, give her a value, done. 🫶
  • -Dname=value — define the CM variable name to have the given value. you decide what it equals, she respects it.
  • -D'name — see that little single quote? 👀 define the CM variable name to have the value 1. that's it, that's the whole thing. the ' is doing the heavy lifting and honestly same.
  • -Uname — remove any definition of the CM variable name. un-defining. the breakup option. 💀
  • -S setup.cm — load and execute the code specified by the CM file setup.cm prior to the main build process. why? because this option lets you customize the compiler via side-effect. it's giving setup ritual before the main event. 🧚
ngl the -S one is the sneaky main character — she runs before everything else, so whatever she does, she does it first. side effects and all. 🌈

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

these are the exact lines, bestie, copy them carefully:

ml-build foo.cm

builds the program foo assuming a main function named Test.main. (yes, she just assumes that. confident queen. 💅)

ml-build foo.cm Main.main

builds the program foo with main function named Main.main. now you named her main function. slay. ✨

ml-build sources.cm Main.main prog

builds the program prog with main function named Main.main. three-argument full glam. 👑

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

ML-Build was written by Matthias Blume. thank you king, we love a builder. 🫶

🌸 SEE-ALSO 🌸

go read her friends, fr fr:

🎀 COPYING 🎀

Copyright © 2020 The Fellowship of SML/NJ

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

like bestie, zero warranty. none. not even the implied ones. it's free software with free-software energy. 🙈

and that's the whole page, pookie. 💜 this beauty comes to you from SML/NJ, dated 2025-11-04, and it's ML-BUILD(1) all the way down. mwah. 😭💖

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