On 23/08/13 22:13, Niculae Ionita 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# ) 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 > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
A lot of these questions have been answered in the recent thread by Simon titled ‘Building on windows’. http://www.mail-archive.com/ghc-devs@haskell.org/msg02094.html -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
