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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>You need</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>export MSYSTEM=MINGW64</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>in your bash profile.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tamar</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:ghc-devs@haskell.org">Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, March 23, 2018 22:21<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Windows</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span lang=EN-GB>I’ve just got a new laptop (the old one’s hard disk died) so I’m trying to get to the point of being able to build GHC again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span lang=EN-GB>I’m currently stuck here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>./configure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking for gfind... no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking for find... /usr/bin/find<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking for GHC version date... inferred 8.5.20180323<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking for GHC Git commit id... inferred affdea82bb70e5a912b679a169c6e9a230e4c93e<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking for ghc... /c/fp/HP-8.2.2/bin/ghc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking version of ghc... 8.2.2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>GHC path canonicalised to: c:/fp/HP-8.2.2/bin/ghc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking build system type... x86_64-pc-msys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking host system type... x86_64-pc-msys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt'>checking target system type... x86_64-pc-msys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Code><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;color:red'>Unknown OS msys<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span lang=EN-GB>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span lang=EN-GB>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span lang=EN-GB>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>