a cygwin binary package of ghc-5.00.x

[Alexander V. Voinov]

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much for the reply. After having asked I managed to build
ghc-5.00.1, and almost succeeded in the rest, till the place where it
failed to invoke ghc-asm (or so, I don't remember, it's on a different
machine). It's not impossible that I understand how to fix it (it was
just before I went home). I use normal latest cygwin installation,
binary installation of ghc-4.08, and tell i686-pc-mingw32 to the
configure of ghc. Looks like it's impossible to build it for the full
cygwin (but does anybody care?) and also I failed to --enable-win32-dlls
(that is _it_ failed, not me :-); it stopped at something like
Main.dll_o.

During the build I was really scared looking at the resident sizes of
the compiler process, which is an ordinary haskell application, with its
most adequate application domain. Does it mean that my _real_ programs
would expose the same?

Alexander

Mike Thomas wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> > > Do anybody have one? I failed to recompile it with ghc 4.08.x.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance
> > >
> > > Alexander
> 
> I have one, which uses the Mingw standalone GCC compiler for Windows.  It
> seems to be capable of compiling itself.
> 
> Problems:
> 
> 1. It is not in an installer - you would have to hand patch the package file
> and install by hand.
> 
> 2. It is not supported by anyone and is non-standard in the way it uses
> Mingw32.
> 
> 3. The Win32 demo program hangs on exit under Win98 (works OK on NT4
> though).
> 
> 4. I haven't bootstrapped GHCi, yet (maybe by next week).
> 
> 5. It is only GHC 5.00, not 5.00.1. (maybe next week).
> 
> 6. You would have to install Mingw32 (and maybe Cygwin for it's shell)
> yourself.
> 
> 7. It is very big, mainly because of the profiled libraries.
> 
> 8. I don't have an FTP site to put it.
> 
> 9.  It doesn't do dynamic libraries, only static.
> 
> etc.
> 
> Unless you're desperate, I suggest waiting for the official release.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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