Cygwin version

[Don Stewart]

tuomov:
> On 2009-03-11, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For a start, you should set your platforms like this:
> >
> >    build  = i386-unknown-mingw32
> >    host   = i386-unknown-mingw32
> >    target = i386-unknown-cygwin32
> 
> "GHC configuration does not support differing host/target (i.e., cross-compiling)"
> with both the 6.6 and 6.10.1 binaries.
> 
> Is an existing cross-compiler really necessary? If a stage1 compiler is 
> created in any case, can't it just be made to be a cross-compiler?
> 
> > If you're really interested in getting this working, expect to have to do a 
> > lot of hacking in GHC's internals, build system, and libraries.  We're here 
> > to help, of course.
> 
> Seems like it will be easier to switch to another version control system.
> 

Have you asked on the darcs-users@ list for a cygwin binary build? I
know these are getting pretty rare now, but someone may have already
produced one.

-- Don