To compile H/Direct 0.17 with GHC 4.08.2

[KAKIHARA Norihiro]

> Sorry to hear this. I found that make boot doesn't work for me either,
> but if I just type "make all" after it stops, everything seems to work.
> You can certainly not just use the ihc.exe from H/Direct 0.16 binary
> release.

I see.
Trying again and again, I could compile H/Direct `without no
trouble' -- rather than successfully.

This is how I compiled H/Direct 0.17 with GHC 4.08.2
(Windows Installer Release),

1. Install some more Cygnus tools into ghc/bin.
    
    * sh.exe in ash
        ... to make GHC compilable (probably the leak of package).
    * date.exe in sh-utils
        ... used in `make boot'.
    * dlltool.exe, dllwrap.exe in binutils
        ... used in `make lib' for compiling Hugs libraries (optional?).


2. Edit line 156 in lib/WideStringSrc.c as such.
    (Otherwise, a confliction error will occur.)
    
    extern int wcslen (const WCHAR* wstr);
        into
    extern size_t wcslen (const WCHAR* wstr);
    

3. Type them in the following order at the H/Direct toplevel:
        $ make boot
        $ make all
        $ make lib


4. Copy hdirect/lib/libHScom.a into ghc/lib.
    (Otherwise, ghc cannot find -lHScom.)


Then I tried to compile examples/string, and get the following output:
    Hello world


Thanks!
 
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