4.3.3 The Build structure

compile

Structure

Shell.Build

Type

val compile: string -> unit

Syntax

compile unit-name -> ()

Arguments

unit-name

A string naming a program unit. Must be given in the portable unit-location notation (see Section 4.3.2.1 on page 69).

Values

unit

Description

Compiles the program unit unit-name into MLWorks object format.

MLWorks looks on the source path for a file unit-name.sml and, if the file has changed since it was last compiled, compiles it into the file unit-name.mo. MLWorks recursively examines the units that unit-name depends on and compiles them first if necessary.

The contents of unit-name do not enter the interactive context.

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