Building on Windows

[Michael Snoyman]

I'd like to discuss that in Phabricator to keep the discussion centralized.
Could you add a comment?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:17 AM, kyra <kyrab at mail.ru> wrote:

> 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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