Problem with installing "primitive" on Windows/i686

[Austin Seipp]

Gintautas,

I'm afraid I don't quite know what's going on immediately, but at a
glance it seems to be some Cabal bug.

I'm not quite sure why it specifically has the 'includes' directive
set to primitive-memops.h, considering 'include-dirs' and 'c-sources'
are set properly.

Have you tried fiddling with any of these and seen any different behavior?

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Gintautas Miliauskas
<gintautas.miliauskas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Gintautas Miliauskas
>
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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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