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<h1>ManualPage</h1>
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<p>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.</p>
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<pre>mlton [option ...] file.{c|mlb|o|sml} [file.{c|o|s|S} ...]</pre>
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<p>The simplest case is to run <code>mlton foo.sml</code>, where <code>foo.sml</code> contains
a valid SML program, in which case MLton compiles the program to
produce an executable <code>foo</code>.  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>
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<p>Larger programs, spanning many files, can be compiled with the
<a href="MLBasis">ML Basis system</a>.  In this case, <code>mlton foo.mlb</code> will
compile the complete SML program described by the basis <code>foo.mlb</code>,
which may specify both SML files and additional bases.</p>
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