> Bryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is trying to compile C->Haskell with > GHC on Win32, but ran into some problems. Firstly, > configure says, > > $ ./configure > loading cache ./config.cache > checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin > checking target system type... i686-pc-cygwin > checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin > checking for Cygwin environment... (cached) no > checking for gcc... (cached) gcc > [..]
Don't know about this one, sorry. Maybe playing with the --build/--host/--target parameters might help: ./configure --help should give you some information. > > So, it says no Cygwin, but identifies the system as > i686-pc-cygwin. AFAIK, GHC uses mingw32 these days, doesn't > it? How can this be reliably tested for? (To exclude > -package posix on that platform.) > > Secondly, are there any issues with symlinks? I append a > sequence of commands that seems to indicate that GHC doesn't > find a file, because it is symlinked. GHC doesn't know about Cygwin symbolic links. One way to deal with this is to hand patch configure to use "cp" instad of "ln -s" wherever needed. Another way might be to use the mingw32 MSYS environment, which is a Cygwin branch hosting Mingw32 tools in a Posix setting, so that configure works a-la Cygwin, but the output executables are normal Mingw32 programs - ie, they know nothing about Cygwinisms. Certain other gotcha's associated with Mingw32 under Cygwin are also removed. They are currently focused on the symlink problem. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
