Can't seem to figure how to compile

[Simon Marlow]

John Vogel wrote:
> Running ghc 6.6.1
> On Windows Vista
> 
> I get this error when I run: ghc Main.hs
> 
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory

This is a known problem on Vista.  The GHC 6.8.1 snapshot should work for 
you, e.g.

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.0.20071020-i386-unknown-mingw32.exe

Please try it out and let us know if that helps.

FYI, the bug we fixed is this:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1110

Cheers,
	Simon