Please update your GHC repository tree, then run: ./sync-all get
There was a bug I fixed today where 'msys' wasn't correctly detected as Windows, so it skipped the ghc-tarballs repository. Then make sure you do './sync-all pull' to update everything else (there were other changes that require syncing.) Hopefully that helps. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Niculae Ionita <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to GHC Dev and I'm trying to build GHC 7.7 (the repo is about 9 > days old) on a Windows machine with mingw32. I followed the very helpful > article for newcomers to GHC dev ( http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/** > ghc/wiki/Newcomers# <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers#> ) > and up to configure it was easy. > > Now I get a problem with configure, the last few output lines are: > > GHC build : i386-unknown-mingw32 > GHC host : i386-unknown-mingw32 > GHC target : i386-unknown-mingw32 > configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd > checking for path to top of build tree... j:/ghc > checking for gcc... j:/ghc/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.**exe > checking whether the C compiler works... no > configure: error: in `/j/ghc': > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details > > From config.log it's clear that j:/ghc/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.**exe is > missing (actually already the bin is missing). My gcc is in /mingw/bin, > which is in PATH, but even if I try with the option > > --with-gcc=/mingw/bin/gcc > > I get the same error. > > So I was looking in the configure script and found out that, for mingw32 > and i386, gcc must be under $hardtop/inplace/mingw/bin/, and if not, there > are commands to unpack all tools from tar files like > ghc-tarballs/mingw/binutils*.**tar.lzma and a few others. > > The point is, I don't have the subdirectory ghc-tarballs under my ghc > directory. > > Now, my questions: > > 1. Are there any reasons to not use the building tools coming from the > mingw installation, and use the dedicated ones? > > 2. Where could I find those tarballs? Did I miss something when updated > the repositories? > > Thanks, > Nicu > > ______________________________**_________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs> > -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
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