<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Hi Michael,<br><br>Those instructions are for the GHC head. For 7.10 and earlier this page <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources/Legacy">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources/Legacy</a> should have been updated but it seems it never was..<br><br>To get the tarballs on that version do <br>git clone git://<a href="http://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git">git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git</a><br><br>I will update the legacy page later.<br><br>Regards,<br>Tamar</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:michael@snoyman.com">Michael Snoyman</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">8/21/2015 7:06</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Building on Windows</span><br><br></div></body></html><div dir="ltr">I'm trying to test a patch I wrote for Windows builds[1]. I'm following the preparation guide[2], but my configure step fails[3] with config.log contents[4]. Note that I'm building on the ghc-7.10 branch, not master. Is it possible that this would contribute to the unrecognized --enable-tarballs-autodownload option, and/or the inability to compile C files?<br><br>[1] <a href="https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1158">https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1158</a>, handles long linker command line arguments<br>[2] <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows</a><br>[3] <a href="http://lpaste.net/139330">http://lpaste.net/139330</a><br>[4] <a href="http://lpaste.net/139331">http://lpaste.net/139331</a><br></div>