Building on windows

[Yotam Ohad]

This is it:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows
Step one, method B

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 8:46 PM Matthew Pickering <
matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which guide are you referring to? I don't know of any which say to use
> stack.
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 6:44 PM Yotam Ohad <yotam2206 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've tried to build ghc on windows 10 with msys. I've installed it with
> stack as said on the guide. In the msys shell, after updating and
> installing everything I've tried to run `./configure
> --enable-tarballs-autodownload` and got the following error:
> >
> > configure: loading site script /mingw64/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 8.7.20181017
> > checking for GHC Git commit id... inferred
> 46f2906d1c6e1fb732a90882487479a2ebf19ca1
> > checking for ghc... no
> > configure: error: GHC is required.
> >
> > I have the haskell platform installed (8.4.3), yet it can't find GHC and
> I'm not sure if I missed something from the guide
> >
> > Yotam
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