Follow the instructions on the wiki that Kyra linked *exactly*. You need to properly set your $PATH to contain:
/c/Users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/cabal/bin If you delete all that stuff and follow those instructions, you should be able to get running in about 5 minutes. You can copy and paste every command without problem: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Jan Stolarek <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. I installed msys but again I faced the same problem. I solved it by > copying mingw > directory from ghc-7.6.3 distribution to inplace/mingw subdirectory in the > source tree. That's > silly but it works. > > Now I have problems with installing alex and happy. I followed steps on wiki > page, ie. downloaded > cabal.exe and added it to path. I can run 'cabal update' and 'cabal install > alex happy' but it > looks like packages are not installed in my home directory (home under msys > shell that is). Any > idea where are they installed so that I can add them to path? > > Janek > > Dnia czwartek, 13 marca 2014, kyra napisał: >> On 3/13/2014 13:18, Jan Stolarek wrote: >> > I'm trying to build GHC on 64-bit Windows 7. I installed Cygwin, GHC and >> > cloned the main repo but when I run configure I get this error: >> > >> > configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd >> > checking for path to top of build tree... cygwin warning: >> > MS-DOS style path detected: C:/cygwin64/home/tewi/head >> > Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /home/tewi/head >> > CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >> > warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: >> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> > C:/cygwin64/home/tewi/head >> > checking for gcc... C:/cygwin64/home/tewi/head/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe >> > checking whether the C compiler works... no >> > configure: error: in `/home/tewi/head': >> > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables >> > See `config.log' for more details >> > >> > I have gcc installed under Cygwin, but for some reason ./configure is >> > looking for an in-tree compiler. I tried passing --with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc >> > to configure but with no result. Help? >> > >> > Janek >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ghc-devs mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> Windows GHC *shall* use in-tree compiler. Windows GHC does *not* use >> cygwin runtime at all! >> >> Now the best way to build GHC on Windows is to use MSYS2: >> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2. >> >> I'd also add that most recent versions are >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/i686/msys2-base-i686-20140 >>216.tar.xz/download for 32-bit windows, >> >> and >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/x86_64/msys2-base-x86_64-2 >>0140216.tar.xz/download for 64-bit windows. >> >> Please, take into account this is *build environment* and in no way is >> related to gcc compiler and runtime used by GHC on Windows. >> >> Cheers, >> Kyra >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
