Building on Windows

[kyra]

My original patch 
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/10777/cabal-rsp.patch 
contains 'normslash' function. It seems, Michael have overlooked this. 
GNU tools wait response files containing forward slashes in paths.

On 21.08.2015 9:52, Tamar Christina wrote:
> Hmm no that doesn't seem familiar to me. It looks like some Windows 
> style paths are being passed around but don't know why..
>
> Are you running the non-emulating shells? E.g. The MinGW-w64 Win64 
> Shell bat?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Michael Snoyman <mailto:michael at snoyman.com>
> Sent: ‎8/‎21/‎2015 8:27
> To: Tamar Christina <mailto:lonetiger at gmail.com>
> Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org <mailto:ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> Subject: Re: Building on Windows
>
> That worked, and got me much farther. If you don't mind one more newb 
> question, I'm now seeing the following. Any thoughts?
>
> ===--- building final phase
> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk <http://ghc.mk> phase=final all
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 utils/hp2ps/dist/build/tmp/hp2ps.exe 
> inplace/bin/hp2ps.exe
> cp driver/ghc-usage.txt inplace/lib/ghc-usage.txt
> cp driver/ghci-usage.txt inplace/lib/ghci-usage.txt
> "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1.exe" -o driver/ghci/dist/build/tmp/ghci.exe 
> -hisuf hi -osuf  o -hcsuf hc -static  -H32m -O     -i -idriver/ghci/. 
> -idriver/ghci/dist/build -idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen 
> -Idriver/ghci/dist/build -Idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen         
> -no-user-package-db -rtsopts      -odir driver/ghci/dist/build -hidir 
> driver/ghci/dist/build -stubdir driver/ghci/dist/build -static  -H32m 
> -O     -i -idriver/ghci/. -idriver/ghci/dist/build 
> -idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen -Idriver/ghci/dist/build 
> -Idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen         -no-user-package-db 
> -rtsopts      -no-auto-link-packages -no-hs-main 
> driver/ghci/dist/build/ghci.o 
> driver/ghci/dist/build/../utils/cwrapper.o 
> driver/ghci/dist/build/../utils/getLocation.o driver/ghci/ghci.res
> Warning: -rtsopts and -with-rtsopts have no effect with -no-hs-main.
>     Call hs_init_ghc() from your main() function to set these options.
> gcc.exe: error: driverghcidistbuildghci.o: No such file or directory
> gcc.exe: error: driverghcidistbuild..utilscwrapper.o: No such file or 
> directory
> gcc.exe: error: driverghcidistbuild..utilsgetLocation.o: No such file 
> or directory
> gcc.exe: error: driverghcighci.res: No such file or directory
> gcc.exe: error: C:msys64-2tmpghc6528_0ghc_4.o: No such file or directory
> gcc.exe: error: C:msys64-2tmpghc6528_0ghc_2.o: No such file or directory
> driver/ghci/ghc.mk:39 <http://ghc.mk:39>: recipe for target 
> 'driver/ghci/dist/build/tmp/ghci.exe' failed
> make[1]: *** [driver/ghci/dist/build/tmp/ghci.exe] Error 1
> Makefile:71: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com 
> <mailto:michael at snoyman.com>> wrote:
>
>     Awesome, thanks for the quick response Tamar. Cloning now.
>
>     On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Tamar Christina
>     <lonetiger at gmail.com <mailto:lonetiger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Michael,
>
>         Those instructions are for the GHC head. For 7.10 and earlier
>         this page
>         https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources/Legacy
>         should have been updated but it seems it never was..
>
>         To get the tarballs on that version do
>         git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git
>         <http://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git>
>
>         I will update the legacy page later.
>
>         Regards,
>         Tamar
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         From: Michael Snoyman <mailto:michael at snoyman.com>
>         Sent: ‎8/‎21/‎2015 7:06
>         To: ghc-devs at haskell.org <mailto:ghc-devs at haskell.org>
>         Subject: Building on Windows
>
>         I'm trying to test a patch I wrote for Windows builds[1]. I'm
>         following the preparation guide[2], but my configure step
>         fails[3] with config.log contents[4]. Note that I'm building
>         on the ghc-7.10 branch, not master. Is it possible that this
>         would contribute to the unrecognized
>         --enable-tarballs-autodownload option, and/or the inability to
>         compile C files?
>
>         [1] https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1158, handles long linker
>         command line arguments
>         [2]
>         https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows
>         [3] http://lpaste.net/139330
>         [4] http://lpaste.net/139331
>
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