New 6.4.1 windows installer

2005-10-19 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
A test installer for a patched version of ghc-6.4.1 for Windows is now available, http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.4.1/ghc-6-4-1-bld1.msi Unless I'll hear of any packaging snafus, it'll be hooked up to the GHC web pages tomorrow. Notice that by default this installer will deposit bits in the same

Re: GHC-6.4.1 on FreeBSD-amd64 port progress

2005-10-19 Thread Wilhelm B. Kloke
Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Are you building GHC in a fresh tree now? I'd recommend doing that. Now I am using a *really* fresh tree. Formerly the compilation of Apply.cmm did not render an instructive error message, just failed for some sort of memory access exception. Now I ha

RE: GHC-6.4.1 on FreeBSD-amd64 port progress

2005-10-19 Thread Simon Marlow
On 18 October 2005 20:26, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: > Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> >> At this point you can either do 'make install stage=1', or you can >> just use the compiler you built to build a clean GHC in another >> tree, i.e. with ./configure >> --with-ghc=/path/to/bootstrap

RE: Cross-Compiling with GHC?

2005-10-19 Thread Simon Marlow
On 18 October 2005 20:17, Rich Fought wrote: > GHC noob here, trying to compile a small app for a Linux/PPC target > from a Linux/x86 host. > > I take it this must be doable, since it is possible to build GHC for > new platforms and GHC itself is written in Haskell. > I'm just trying to find out