[Haskell-cafe] Re: Compilling GHC on Vista

[Simon Marlow]

There isn't a solution for the getPermissions issue; the bug is here: 
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1280.

Monique: can you post the relevant section of config.log from your failed 
configure run?

Cheers,
	Simon

Monique Monteiro wrote:
> For backward compatibility reasons, I'm using GHC 6.2.2.  So, if there
> is already a solution for this issue in the GHC repository, please let
> me know how to add it manually.
> 
> I don't have problems with ./configure on Windows XP.
> 
> On 4/24/07, Tom Schrijvers <Tom.Schrijvers at cs.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>> > I still get the same message even with these instructions.  I guess it
>> > may be due to some Vista security checking...
>>
>> Do you still get the same error message in your config.log now? Or a
>> different one? There is also an error on Vista with checking whether a
>> file is executable. I don't know whether there's already a solution
>> for that in the repository?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Monique
>> >
>> > On 4/24/07, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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