Windows build

[lonetiger at gmail.com]

Hi Simon,

For these tests it shouldn’t matter much so I guess I can change them.

The Windows Build guide does ask to put /mingw64/bin/ on your path.
The reason I tend not to want to use GHC to compile my c files for the tests is that GHC doesn’t just pass the commands along to gcc.
It adds to them. While for these single object files it doesn’t matter (as it just adds a few defines and include paths) It has bitten me multiple times in the past. Particularly when compiling shared libraries for tests since GHC wants to link in the RTS, which makes the files considerably larger and harder to debug so
I tend to avoid using GHC to compile just pure C code.

It means (with shared libraries) that I’ll end up with multiple RTSs loaded (at least in memory, which means stepping in gdb I have to keep track of the memory locations so I know which one I’m in). So I really wish there was a way  to tell GHC not to do this.

Also you’ll likely be linking against libraries compiled against other versions of GCC or MSVC so that shouldn’t be an issue.

I’ll change the tests tomorrow, but I would much prefer if the testsuite can tell me where the GCC to use is, so I don’t have to use GHC.

Regards,
Tamar

From: Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 22:27
To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
Subject: Windows build

I’ve completed a successful build on my Surface Book!  Thank you.

One last glitch. I’m getting the validate failure bellow.

No other test requires gcc in my path.  GHC itself carefully navigates to its own private gcc.   Do we really want this family of tests (half a dozen variants of T11223) to rely on some random gcc, which might or might not be the same as GHC is using?  Shouldn’t we use ‘ghc foo.c’?

Simon

=====> T11223_simple_unused_duplicate_lib(normal) 3371 of 5211 [0, 6, 1]
cd "/c/Users/simonpj/AppData/Local/Temp/ghctest-hFCtmi/test   spaces/./rts/T11223/T11223_simple_unused_duplicate_lib.run" && $MAKE -s --no-print-directory t_11223_simple_unused_duplicate_lib  
Wrong exit code (expected 0 , actual 2 )
Stdout:

Stderr:
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make[2]: *** [Makefile:42: t_11223_simple_unused_duplicate_lib] Error 127


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