I fixed the ./sync-all detection (I just checked it myself, but thanks for the patch though Niklas!)
Simon, I've got a working i386/windows build here, but I'll rebuild a new VM and try again and closely follow the docs and amend what's necessary. In the mean time, perhaps try with a fresh tree? On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Niklas Larsson <metanik...@gmail.com>wrote: > Here is a patch for this bug. It just adds 'msys' to the $OSNAME check. > > Niklas > > > 2013/8/23 Niklas Larsson <metanik...@gmail.com> > >> Hi! >> >> The check for Windows in sync-all is failing (line 790). On a mingw/msys >> system $OSNAME contains 'msys' and not MSWin32 or Cygwin that it is >> checking for. >> >> Niklas >> >> >> 2013/8/23 Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> >> >>> I’ve got a new Windows laptop, and have being having a torrid time >>> getting GHC to build on it.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> **1. **Build falls over with **** >>> >>> checking for gcc... c:/code/HEAD/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe**** >>> >>> checking whether the C compiler works... no**** >>> >>> configure: error: in `/c/code/HEAD':**** >>> >>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables**** >>> >>> Turns out that an earlier error was**** >>> >>> configure: Making in-tree mingw tree**** >>> >>> tar (child): ../../ghc-tarballs/mingw/binutils*.tar.lzma: Cannot open: >>> No such file or directory**** >>> >>> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now**** >>> >>> tar: Child returned status 2**** >>> >>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now**** >>> >>> ./configure: line 4050: inplace/mingw/bin/realgcc.exe: No such file or >>> directory**** >>> >>> configure: In-tree mingw tree created**** >>> >>> configure: Making in-tree perl tree**** >>> >>> BUT this error was not fatal, so the build went on (notwithstanding the >>> red message above), leading to a MUCH more obscure error later.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> **2. **Why wasn’t ghc-tarballs there? Oh, apparently you have to >>> say **** >>> >>> sync-all –windows get**** >>> >>> That’s really hard for a naïve user to work out. Can’t we either always >>> get it, or work out that we are on windows?**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> **3. **I carefully installed mingw/msys as described on >>> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started >>> I used mingw-set-inst, which launches a GUI for a package installer. >>> All seems well. I update my path. But then**** >>> >>> Can't locate Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm in @INC (@INC contains: >>> /mingw/share/autoco**** >>> >>> nf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 >>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/msys**** >>> >>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 >>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_**** >>> >>> perl/5.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 >>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) a**** >>> >>> t /c/Programme/MinGW/bin/autoreconf-2.68 line 40.**** >>> >>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >>> /c/Programme/MinGW/bin/autoreconf-2.68 line**** >>> >>> 40.**** >>> >>> After a long struggle I found that I had missed a crucial thing. With >>> the new autoconf tools, *it’s essential that c:/mingw be mounted as >>> /mingw*, because /mingw is hard-coded into autoconf perl scripts. >>> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started does say (deep in the middle) >>> to edit c:/mingw/msys/1.0/etc/fstab with a text editor, but that appeared >>> to have no effect for me. Saying “mount c:/mingw /mingw” did work. I >>> have no idea why. **** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> What is horrible is how uninformative the error message is.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I guess we should update the Windows build instructions.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I still don’t know if I’ve bottomed out here because I can’t find >>> Happy/Alex in the Haskell platform. Sigh.**** >>> >>> Simon**** >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ghc-devs mailing list >>> ghc-devs@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
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