You have to give more details than this; GHC does support both '/' and '\' as path separator (but, of course, doesn't understand nonsense like /cygdrive prefixes).
That GHC doesn't depend on cygwin is a feature, not a bug (but if you want it to, you can compile it up for that 'platform' instead). --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Courtney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 07:02 Subject: Cygwin path support for ghc under Windows? > Hi, > > This is more of a question than a bug report, so my appologies for using > what is probably the wrong email list. > > Henrik Nilsson and I have just invested considerable effort in trying to > write portable, complete Makefiles for compiling and installing some of > our Haskell libraries with ghc under both Linux and Windows. We have > invested a lot of work into factoring out platform- and site-specific > definitions from the common build rules and target lists. Of course, > Cygwin and its port of GNU make is the only thing that makes this idea > even vaguely plausible. > > When I look at the Win32-specific portion of the Makefile, it appears > that the *only* reason that I can't write one simple, portable GNU make > Makefile that would work on Linux and Windows is because ghc only > understands the Windows-style path name convention (with '\' as the path > seperator, and ':' for drive letters). All of the other Cygwin tools > understand both the Windows-style and Cygwin/POSIX-style path names. > > What are your thoughts on this matter? Have you considered adding > POSIX-style path name support to ghc on Windows, either by hand or by > linking with cygwin? After all, any Windows developer worth supporting > will have Cygwin installed anyway. :-) > > If there is interest but lack of resources, I would be happy to have a > go at implementing a minimalist form of such support. > > -antony > > -- > Antony Courtney > Grad. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony > > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
