Windows build problems

[Bill Tutt]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Bill Tutt <bill at tutts.org> wrote:
>
> I ended up getting an error during stage 2 about the iconv.dll not
> being findable. (I'm guessing the new msys/mingw autosmarted GHC
> boot/configure or cabal configure process somehow ....)
>

Yep. This is most likely the problem. -liconv wasn't found during
Simon's 8/23 ghc-HEAD build on Windows:
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/simonmar-win32-head/377/8.html

cabal configure of libraries\base found a working -liconv
from one of:
/bin/libiconv-2.dll
/msys/1.0/bin/msys-libiconv-2.dll
/lib/libiconv.a
/lib/libiconv.dll.a
/lib/libiconv.la

The in tree mingw is picking up /lib/libiconv.a but apparently
libraries\base\configure doesn't require it to be a shared library.

Fyi,
Bill