[Haskell-cafe] Re: Compilling GHC on Vista

[Simon Marlow]

Tom Schrijvers wrote:
>
> Here's the more complete error message:
> 
>> configure:3321: checking for C compiler default output file name
>> configure:3348: c:/MinGW/bin/gcc    conftest.c  >&5
>> ld: /mingw/lib/crt2.o: No such file: No such file or directory
>> configure:3351: $? = 1
>> configure:3389: result:
>> configure: failed program was:
>> configure:3396: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> Do make sure that MingW's bin/ and libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/ are the 
> very first two in your path. I get the same error message if I don't do 
> that.

Hi Tom - would you mind adding the right incantation to the Vista instructions 
at the top of http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Windows?

Cheers,
	Simon