Problem with installing "primitive" on Windows/i686

[Gintautas Miliauskas]

Installation of Alex in the msys2 i686 instructions is broken, more details
in https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9712. Before I spend more time
on this, maybe someone knows off the bat what's going on?

$ cabal install alex
Resolving dependencies...
Downloading primitive-0.5.4.0...
Configuring primitive-0.5.4.0...
Failed to install primitive-0.5.4.0
Build log (
C:\Users\Gintas\AppData\Roaming\cabal\logs\primitive-0.5.4.0.log ):
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             (
C:\Users\Gintas\Downloads\msys32\tmp\primitive-0.5.4.0-2404\primitive-0.5.4.0\dist\setup\setup.hs,
C:\Users\Gintas\Downloads\msys32\tmp\primitive-0.5.4.0-2404\primitive-0.5.4.0\dist\setup\Main.o
)
Linking
C:\Users\Gintas\Downloads\msys32\tmp\primitive-0.5.4.0-2404\primitive-0.5.4.0\dist\setup\setup.exe
...
Configuring primitive-0.5.4.0...
setup-Simple-Cabal-1.18.1.3-i386-windows-ghc-7.8.3.exe: Missing dependency
on
a foreign library:
* Missing (or bad) header file: primitive-memops.h
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
--extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
If the header file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the
C
compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure
with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages.


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Gintautas Miliauskas
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