| I took a shot at building this on cygwin w/ egcs and it failed.
| Neither the unix build nor the dgjpp build would take.
| I don't have borland or microsoft c compilers installed.
Most puzzling. Before making the release available, I built and tested
it on all of the platforms at my disposal:
unix (Solaris)
djgpp2
msc (Microsoft Visual C++ version 5 on NT4)
msc (Microsoft Visual C++ version 6 on Win98)
bcc32 (Borland C++ 4.52 on Win98 and NT4)
win32 (Borland C++ 4.52 on Win98 and NT4)
All of these built *without* problem. Prompted by your message,
I downloaded and installed a copy of cygwin-b20 under NT4 this morning.
I'm a first time cygwin user, but again I had no problem building Hugs.
In other words, I've built Hugs 981111 on all the platforms that you
mentioned, without any problems. I've also heard from Hans Aberg,
who has built a copy on the mac (ftp://haskell.org/pub/incoming/MacHugs).
Perhaps there is something strange about your particular configuration.
For example:
| Btw, the unix build error messages were:
| ...
| In file included from hugs.c:20:
| C:\TOOLS\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386~1\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\egcs-2.90.2
| 7\../../../../i386-cygwin32/include/ctype.h:62: warning:
| `isascii' redefined
| ...
If this is really was a Unix build, then I'm surprised to see a filename
that includes components like "C:\", "H-I386~1", and "i-386-cygwin32",
all of which suggest *Windows*. Was this a typo? Is the confusion
here perhaps the source of the problems you've been having? I'd also
be interested to hear whether you experience similar problems if you
attempt to build the Hugs-June98 release on your machine. Things haven't
changed too much in this part of the system, so if you can do one, then
you should be able to do the other. Let me know how you get on, or if
you can supply more information that will allow me to reproduce the
problems that you've described.
All the best,
Mark
