ghc-6.6 on Windows Vista: "cannot exec as"

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Thank you, something's changed wrt path handling it seems. A temporary
fix/workaround (as reported by other Vista users) is to add the
ghc-6.6\gcc-lib directory to your PATH.

If you have the time, here's a couple of things to try out to
diagnose the problem further:

c:\foo> echo int x = 22; > foo.c
c:\foo> c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc -Bc:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc-lib/ -c foo.c
<...> # expected to fail (same as ghc's invoc of gcc below)
c:\foo> c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc -Bc:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc-lib -c foo.c
<...> # what happens here?
c:\foo> c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc -Bc:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc-lib\ -c foo.c
<...> # what happens here?

--sigbjorn

Satnam Singh wrote:
> The -v output below. I shall try it with Vista RC2 and see if that make a difference.
> The same installer file on Windows XP and Windows Server seems to work fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Satnam
>
> C:\sd\satnams\haskell\hello>ghc Hello.hs
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
>
> C:\sd\satnams\haskell\hello>ghc -v Hello.hs
> Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.6, for Haskell 98, compiled by GHC version 6.6
> Using package config file: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\package.conf
> wired-in package base mapped to base-2.0
> wired-in package rts mapped to rts-1.0
> wired-in package haskell98 mapped to haskell98-1.0
> wired-in package template-haskell mapped to template-haskell-2.0
> Hsc static flags: -static
> Created temporary directory: C:/Users/satnams/AppData/Local/Temp/ghc5440_0
> *** Checking old interface for main:Main:
> *** Parser:
> *** Renamer/typechecker:
> *** Desugar:
>     Result size = 10
> *** Simplify:
>     Result size = 8
> *** Tidy Core:
>     Result size = 8
> *** CorePrep:
>     Result size = 10
> *** Stg2Stg:
> *** CodeGen:
> *** CodeOutput:
> *** Assembler:
> c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc -Bc:\ghc\ghc-6.6\gcc-lib/ -I. -c C:\Users\satnams\AppData\Local\Temp\ghc5440_0\ghc5440_0.s -o Hello.o
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
> *** Deleting temp files:
> Deleting: C:/Users/satnams/AppData/Local/Temp/ghc5440_0/ghc5440_0.s
> *** Deleting temp dirs:
> Deleting: C:/Users/satnams/AppData/Local/Temp/ghc5440_0
>
> C:\sd\satnams\haskell\hello>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sigbjorn Finne [mailto:sof at galois.com]
> Sent: 18 October 2006 14:03
> To: Satnam Singh
> Cc: GHC-bugs list
> Subject: Re: ghc-6.6 on Windows Vista: "cannot exec as"
>
>
> Thanks; for people that don't have access to Vista, the output resulting
> from 'ghc -v Hello.hs' would help narrowing this down a bit...I hope.
>
> --sigbjorn
>
> Satnam Singh wrote:
>   
>> I just installed GHC-6.6. on Windows Vista RC1 (using the MSI
>> installer) but when I compile I get the error:
>>
>> c:\sd\satnams\haskell\hello>ghc Hello.hs
>>
>> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this?
>>
>> And before anyone tells me to: no, I can't use Linux!
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Satnam
>>