[Haskell-cafe] Unable to build a mingw cross compiler.

[Hamish Mackenzie]

Did you find a solution to this?

On 23 Aug 2014, at 10:38, Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher at weltraumschlangen.de> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to build GHC to cross compile to windows.
> GCC and friends are in /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-*, libraries and
> headers are in /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/{include,lib}.
> 
> I configured with:
> ./configure --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \
>  --with-gcc=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc # Needed because
>  					     # otherwise /usr/bin/gcc
>  					     # would be used
> 
> Building fails with the following error:
> utils/hsc2hs/dist/build/Main.o: In function `s2nI_info':
> (.text+0x5c5): undefined reference to `GetModuleFileNameW'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> (The GHC invocation line is included in the attached file)
> 
> So it seems that GHC either uses the wrong linker or invokes it with
> the wrong search path.
> However, the configure script detects the right linker
> (/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32).
> 
> Is this a bug, or a feature?
> 
> System data:
> OS: Debian jessie Linux/GNU i386
> Installed GHC (for bootstrapping): version 7.6.3
> GHC I'm trying to build: version 7.8.3
> 
> Regards
> Sven
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