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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I was using “sh validate”. Incidentally, does that still use validate.mk, are-validating.mk etc? Or is all that gone now, in which case if I want to modify
the validate settings what do I do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">32 vs 64 bit? How do I find out? I’m on a 64-bit processor, but for all I know I’m building GHC with 32 bit stuff. How would I tell?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">`git submodule update’ appeared not to do anything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m on a9c93b as well, same as you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’ll try ‘make maintainer-clean’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Am I using LLVM? I don’t know. I’m just saying ‘sh validate’. How would I install LLVM? The Windows preparation page is silent on that.
<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Incidentally, the stage2 compiler can build statically-linked binaries; it’s just<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> ghc-stage2 –interactive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">that immediately fails with the error below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">How could I investigate the actual error more directly? Trying random things around the side is good, but so is directly investigating the cause, if only I knew
how.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Thomas Miedema [mailto:thomasmiedema@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 27 October 2015 00:55<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ghc-devs@haskell.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Can't build on Windows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I can not reproduce this on 64bit Windows, a9c93bdd8b027d6de09a3eada7721e7fd2d3e050 builds succesfully with flavour devel2.<o:p></o:p></p>
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* Which build flavour are you using? Any other mk/<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fbuild.mk&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cc86c89f598f14d618fe808d2de692fc8%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=p1UQjXj6nQgS8jCzrn2iYDTXQfMWxDWu7zEyn6wTUsM%3d" target="_blank">build.mk</a>
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* 32bit or 64bit?<o:p></o:p></p>
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* Output of `git status` (i.e. did you 'git submodule update'? In case that fixes it, I suggest you use <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WorkingConventions/Git/Submodules#gitpullall">git pullall</a> for all your pulling needs)<o:p></o:p></p>
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* Try `make maintainer-clean`.<o:p></o:p></p>
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* In case you use llvm, note that HEAD needs llvm-3.7 now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Gurgah. GHC is broken on my windows laptop. See below. Anyone have any ideas? Frustrating.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Oddly the symbol is defined in the .exe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>bash$ nm inplace/bin/ghc-stage2.exe | grep stg_upd_frame<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>02c248e0 T _stg_upd_frame_info<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This is admittedly on a branch that I have modified; but I have only modified stuff in the front end, nothing in the RTS etc. I suppose I will try to build a unmodified HEAD too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">can anyone help? Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>bash$ c:/code/HEAD/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>GHCi, version 7.11.20151026: <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.haskell.org%2fghc%2f&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cc86c89f598f14d618fe808d2de692fc8%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=v%2f5XCuTyAUEs11BFcXCM06TDhVNTgQLJnD%2bomo7Vy6I%3d" target="_blank">
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/</a> :? for help<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>ghc-stage2.exe: unable to load package `ghc-prim-0.4.0.0'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>ghc-stage2.exe: C:\code\HEAD\libraries\ghc-prim\dist-install\build\HSghc-prim-0.4.0.0.o: unknown symbol `_stg_upd_frame_info'<o:p></o:p></p>
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