Hugs troubs: build from source on Windows

[Neil Mitchell]

I'm afraid I don't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning -
absolutely no memory of compiling Hugs and it was probably 4 computers ago
so don't have any details. Good luck.

Thanks, Neil

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 2:19 pm, Anthony Clayden <
anthony_clayden at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Thank you Neil, I'm amazed anybody's still monitoring this forum. (I was
> more posting for the sake of posterity/somebody else trying to revive Hugs.)
>
> In that case, I'm sure you'll remember this ;-)
>
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-bugs/2006-August/001612.html
>
> I'm building Hugs from the Sep 2006 source, on a 64-bit Windows 8 machine,
> using MinGW32.
>
> The good news is it built and I can at least run the interpreter.
>
> The bad news is I hacked and bumbled my way through, so I'm not sure what
> I got. In particular, three .dll's didn't build, so I copied them over from
> the binaries distro; then hacked the Makefile; then carried on. Those three
> are
>
> Ptr.dll; Alloc.dll; Error.dll  -- from corresponding .c in
> ./libraries/bootlib/Foreign, and sub-dirs.
>
> Presumably the .c didn't compile. Those are three of the four .dll's
> mentioned in your August 2006 message.
>
> Can you remember any clues as to what was wrong or where to go looking?
>
> I can explain the message in your post, because I got the same message in
> an earlier attempt: "too many arguments to function 'mkdir'."
>
> Microsoft in their wisdom changed the command. There's a call to it from
> dirprim.c, guarded by a check of the HOST_OS. The August 2006 message is
> wrt a call in HsBase.h, similarly guarded but maybe subtly different?:
>
>     INLINE HsInt
>     __hscore_mkdir( HsAddr pathName, HsInt mode )
>     {  ...  mkdir  ... }
>
> Full disclosure: I got the error re 'mkdir' when I was trying to compile
> under MSys2 -- trying to be modern. That gives a HOST_OS of 'msys', and
> Hugs just doesn't know about it. I tried hacking config.sub, but ran into
> more and more trouble in other places. Eventually I abandoned MSys2 and
> fell back to old MSys vintage 2011.
>
>
> Thank you for any pointers(!) And thank you Hugs team for such a
> robust/long-lived piece of software. Building Hugs (or at least building
> whatever I've got) has been less trouble than GHC on Windows looks to be
> https://mmhaskell.com/blog/2018/6/11/contributing-to-ghc-1-preparation
>
>
> AntC
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 at 9:40 PM, Neil Mitchell <redirect at vodafone.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
>> Thanks for finding it. I don't even know how to update the website.
>> Ross (cc'd) might...
>>
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