Hi all. > What I'm wondering is whether the difficulty is a necessary one, or > if it was unintentional, is there an easy fix? From your suggestions, > I guess there isn't an easy fix.
I haven't tried this with GHC yet but Earnie Boyd on Sourceforge has recently forked Cygwin to produce a Mingw32 build environment called MSYS. This environment uses the same native Mingw32 gcc as distributed with GHC and is designed to allow the use of native Windows tools within a GNU autotools configuration/build environment. MSYS converts native paths into Posix while executing processes (including Cygwin soft links) and may help your user, Malcolm, to build under Windows while retaining the benefits of a GNU Posix work environment - Makefiles etc. In contrast to Cygwin, executables produced under MSYS are completely normal native Win32 programs (as produced by Mingw32). Most importantly, they depend only on MS Win32 libraries - not on cygwin1.dll or other Posix emulation libraries. > > You make it sound as if it isn't possible, which certainly isn't the > > case - you just have to keep in mind that using filepaths that only > > makes sense wrt. the Cygwin mount table is not a Good Idea, > > i.e., stuff like /cygdrive/d/foo. (Have a look at the 'cygpath' utility, > > btw). > > I have already suggested `cygpath' to the user, which is rather ugly > but does at least work. One issue for me however, as a distributor > of Haskell software, is that I don't want to pollute the installation > Makefiles with lots of `cygpath' stuff that is only applicable to > one platform. Maybe I can find a relatively painless way to propagate > the cygpath calls through a Makefile hierarchy at configure time. > > > If you're really that gung-ho about cygwin, you could always compile > > up GHC using the cygwin toolchain. > > I avoid Windows altogether myself, but I'll suggest it to the user > who had the original complaint. This is why no-one uses Haskell. (Ooops :)) Cheers Mike Thomas. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
