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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Simon,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m not sure what’s going on there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I updated my curl to 7.49.1 and I am experiencing the same silent death (--version doesn’t even work for me then which is weird).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, downgrading back to 7.48.0 worked for me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know how to do that with pacman, so instead maybe try:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pacman -S wget<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>wget -qO - http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/libcurl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>wget -qO - http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/curl-7.48.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | tar xJ -C /usr --strip-components=1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If it doesn’t work, to upgrade again to 7.49.1 you can just do pacman -S curl libcurl<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tamar<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">Simon Peyton Jones</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 28, 2016 21:13<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com">lonetiger@gmail.com</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: Msys2 64: progress</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Actually I had the command right; copy/paste somehow removed the underscore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>And curl –version does report <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>curl --version<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>curl 7.49.1 (x86_64-pc-msys) </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang=EN-GB>so it should not be necessary anyway.</span></a><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>But ./configure still fails with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-GB>checking for path to top of build tree... C:/code/HEAD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-GB>configure: Checking for Windows toolchain tarballs...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-GB>configure: Extracting Windows toolchain from archives (may take a while)...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-GB>File not found - *.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Meanwhile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-GB>mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>completes after 1 second, with no messages of any kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>What next?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>lonetiger@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> 28 June 2016 22:19<br><b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org>; David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>; tamar@zhox.com<br><b>Cc:</b> ghc-devs@haskell.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Msys2 64: progress</p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Simon,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You’re missing an underscore in the command (there’s one between x86 and 64), </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s pacman -R <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2frepo.msys2.org%2fmingw%2fx86_64%2fmingw-w64-x86_64-curl-7.43.0-2-any.pkg.tar.xz&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7c29ea9918454d48869fcb08d39f917b40%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=1LRbkuT6t%2f%2bEyWa1nfWXuraL5Y%2faGwB9n6b6bRwBb3I%3d">mingw-w64-x86_64-curl</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>This is only needed if curl --version reports anything other than x86_64-pc-msys.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>After that you need to install the normal msys curl with pacman -S curl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>You don’t have to run configure everytime to test either, you can just run<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>mk/get-win32-tarballs.sh download x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>from the root and it should just download the packages only if everything is setup correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Also don’t forget to do a pacman -Sy to update the repositories. Couldn’t gather from your email if you did this already.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Tamar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 28, 2016 21:02<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:david.macek.0@gmail.com">David Macek</a>; <a href="mailto:tamar@zhox.com">tamar@zhox.com</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Msys2 64: progress<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Friends</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I want to thank everyone who has responded – very helpful!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thanks to your help I am making progress<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>I re-installed msys64 from scratch, this time following the instructions on the GHC wiki rather than the msys2 page. By doing update-core; then pacman -Su; then pacman -Su again, I got a clean install. Very good!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><span lang=EN-GB>Getting a shell between each step is tricky.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>The first shell is gotten with mingw64.bat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>After update-core, that file is gone; you have to use msys2_shell.cmd I think<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>After pacman -Su we get mingw64.exe, which we can use thereafter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>My slow-start problem appears to have gone away. I adopted the fix from <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>you may be hitting a long standing issue some computers have in which the domain controller is being hit for every invocation of commands, causing a slowdown <a href="https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/138">https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/138</a> , Solution 2 from <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fgist.github.com%2fk-takata%2f9b8d143f0f3fef5abdab&data=01%7c01%7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cdd4588e2f3ff499367c308d39f535acd%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=KQFg%2f83I5Vj%2bS4ivgSvAI%2bpt3A04ulMjbO%2bbIrsb%2btQ%3d">https://gist.github.com/k-takata/9b8d143f0f3fef5abdab</a> seems to fix it for most people.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst><span lang=EN-GB>I am not absolutely certain that was the problem, but things seem ok now. I also excluded c:/msys64 from my antivirus check.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>Emacs too is now working normally. Hurrah<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>So that’s all good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Now I’m stuck on the windows tarballs download thing. I get<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB>configure: Checking for Windows toolchain tarballs...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB>configure: Extracting Windows toolchain from archives (may take a while)...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB>File not found - *.tar.xz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I tried both the things described on <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows">the wiki</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB>Pacman -R mingw-w64-x86_64-curl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB>error: target not found: mingw-w64-x86_64-curl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>For the other I did the two mkdir things, and tried ./configure again, but got the same error message as above.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>So I’m stuck again, but further forward. Can you advise me?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>