Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2009-03-08, John Meacham <j...@repetae.net> wrote:
if you follow those steps, but then don't override the host in the
./configure step to just let it pick up the cygwin environment will it
work properly?
John
No:
Configuring extensible-exceptions-0.1.0.0...
cabal-bin.exe: Cannot find the program 'ghc' at
'/c/bin/ghc-6.10.1.20090308/bin/ghc' or on the path
'ldd libraries/cabal-bin.exe' finds no cygwin dependencies;
everything points to /c/WINDOWS/system32. I presume that
the mingw-ghc used the include mingw gcc, not cygwin's gcc.
Indeed, I tried deleting that file, and got:
ghc.exe: could not execute: C:\bin\ghc-6.10.1.20090308\gcc
It doesn't seem like it will build cygwin programs.
There's no fundamental reason why there can't be a "real" Cygwin GHC (that
is, a GHC producing binaries that are linked against the Cygwin DLL).
Indeed it used to work, a long time ago. But due to lack of demand it
bitrotted.
I imagine it would be a fair amount of work to get it going again, but of
greater concern to me is how we would *keep* it working: there needs to be
interested people actively maintaining buildbots and catching bitrot as it
happens. Without a sustainable process, there isn't a great deal of point
in updating the port.
Cheers,
Simon
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