Hugs November 2003 and cygwin

[KarlPflästerer]

On 10 Dec 2003, Ross Paterson <- ross at soi.city.ac.uk wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:58:22PM +0100, Karl Pflästerer wrote:
>> does anyone know if and if yes how it's possible to compile the actual
>> Hugs version (november 2003) under Cygwin?  The former version could be
>> compiled OOTB now it breaks at several points.

> Did you try the instructions in docs/win32-notes.txt?

Actually not.  As I read them now I see I need mingw, happy and hsc2hs.
Are they all absolutely necessary?  Then I'd first had to install GHC
and I'm not sure if GHC can be compiled with Cygwin.

Furthermore I need the mingw gcc?  That's new and not nice.

   KP

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