a cygwin binary package of ghc-5.00.x

[Alexander V. Voinov]

Hi Simon et al.

I see. My concern is the following. Before I stick to haskell I have to
make sure that I can connect some necessary windows-specific C stuff to
my programs - both mine and external. I can start developing with Hugs,
but finally I would need a compiled speed. Do I understand correctly,
that Hugs allows to make C extensions on windows? Can I then use the same
interfaces once ghc for windows is ready?

My last obstacle with recompiling ghc is

../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -I../includes -I. -Iparallel -O2
-DCOMPILING_RTS -static    -c Exception.hc -o Exception.o
'c:/avv/soft/ghc-5.00.1/ghc/compiler/../driver/mangler/ghc-asm' is not
recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

where c:/avv/soft/ghc-5.00.1 is evidently the root of the source tree,
and this ghc-asm is present at the specified location. I tried to change
the prefix to /cygwin/c/... in Config.hs, but this didn't help.

Besides, I'd be much more interested in making extensions with VC N,
where N >= 5 or 6. If the words 'doesn't require Cygwin ' below mean
exactly this, I'd better wait.

Thank you in advance

Alexander

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> I'm afraid there isn't a Windows port of 5.00.1 yet.  We have one
> working here, but we are trying to get the packaging right
> so that it doesn't require Cygwin etc.
>
> If you want to build it from source, you might want to wait for
> Reuben to put up the 4.08 download he's about to distribute.
> I have myself used this download to compile the head from
> source yesterday, so I know it works!
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Alexander V. Voinov [mailto:avv@quasar.ipa.nw.ru]
> | Sent: 24 May 2001 19:12
> | To: haskell@haskell.org
> | Subject: a cygwin binary package of ghc-5.00.x
> |
> |
> | Hi All,
> |
> | Do anybody have one? I failed to recompile it with ghc 4.08.x.
> |
> | Thank you in advance
> |
> | Alexander
> |
> |
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