[Haskell-cafe] Compilling GHC on Vista

[Tom Schrijvers]

> I'm trying to compile GHC on Windows Vista, but I encountered the
> following error when running ./configure --host=i386-unknown-mingw32
> --with-gcc=c:/MinGW/bin/gcc:
>
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> ./configure: line 3404: cannot create temp file for here document: No such 
> file
> or directory
> ./configure: line 3441: cannot create temp file for here document: No such 
> file
> or directory
>
> Has anyone any idea about what may be happening?

Monique,

What does the config.log say?

Are you able to run the MingW's gcc compiler yourself on a simple C 
program?

I had a similar error, cause by the fact that gcc.exe cannot find cc1.exe,
which is in MingW/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/. I had to add it to my PATH.

Cheers,

Tom

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