Building Haddock on Windows

[Sven Panne]

Graham Klyne wrote:
> I think this has come up before, but I can't find an answer.  How can I 
> build Haddock under Windows?  I've got the Haddock distribution, and it 
> has a 'building.sgml' file, but I can't find a processed version (e.g. 
> HTML or PDF) of this document.

Well, there is a processed version on haskell.org:

    http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html

But that's probably not exactly what you're looking for. It only describes
in very general terms how to build the fptools suite.

> I also can't find any online documentation for building Haddock. [...]

This is not exactly "documentation", but at least it's online:  :-)

    http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/haddock/haddock.spec?rev=1.16

The .spec file describes exactly what has to be done to build Haddock, at
least if you've got a Unix-like environment (e.g. cygwin, MinGW/MSYS). It
boils down to the the usual:

    autoreconf
    ./configure --prefix=<WhereverYouWantItToBeInstalledLater>
    make
    make html
    make install

Alex and Happy are built in exactly the same way, BTW. But perhaps Sigbjorn
has some ultra-secret scripts/tools for generating an *.msi... :-]

Cheers,
    S.