Windows

[Gabor Greif]

Just an idea...

could this hint be part of the `configure` error message?

 Gabor

On 3/23/18, lonetiger at gmail.com <lonetiger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> You need
>
> export MSYSTEM=MINGW64
>
> in your bash profile.
>
> Regards,
> Tamar
>
> From: Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 22:21
> To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> Subject: Windows
>
> I’ve just got  a new laptop (the old one’s hard disk died) so I’m trying to
> get to the point of being able to build GHC again.
> I’m currently stuck here:
> ./configure
> configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site
> checking for gfind... no
> checking for find... /usr/bin/find
> checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
> checking for GHC version date... inferred 8.5.20180323
> checking for GHC Git commit id... inferred
> affdea82bb70e5a912b679a169c6e9a230e4c93e
> checking for ghc... /c/fp/HP-8.2.2/bin/ghc
> checking version of ghc... 8.2.2
> GHC path canonicalised to: c:/fp/HP-8.2.2/bin/ghc
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-msys
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-msys
> checking target system type... x86_64-pc-msys
> Unknown OS msys
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Simon
>
>