Compiling regex-posix-0.93.2 on windows

[Chris Kuklewicz]

I am not sure what is going wrong.  I have not been using Haskell on windows.  I 
am also copying this reply to haskell-cafe and libaries mailing lists.  Does 
anyone know?

Parnell Flynn wrote:
> I am having a terrible time compiling the 0.93.2 version of the 
> regex-posix library on windows XP.
> 
> I have Cygwin and MinGW installed and I have a version of the regex.h 
> header in C:/cygwin/usr/include what shared libraries do I need?
> 
> Here is a copy of the error it finds the include but is unable to link.
> 
> This links to the standard c library version of regular expressions.
> 
> The corresponding c header file is regex.h and there is a chance you
> 
> will need to edit the end of the regex-posix.cabal file to find the
> 
> include directory and/or library.
> 
> Preprocessing library regex-posix-0.93.2...
> 
> dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap_hsc_make.o(.text+0x85):Wrap_hsc_make.c: 
> undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
> 
> dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap_hsc_make.o(.text+0xc9):Wrap_hsc_make.c: 
> undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
> 
> dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap_hsc_make.o(.text+0xf1):Wrap_hsc_make.c: 
> undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
> 
> dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap_hsc_make.o(.text+0x125):Wrap_hsc_make.c: 
> undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
> 
> dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap_hsc_make.o(.text+0x159):Wrap_hsc_make.c: 
> undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
> 
> dist/build/Text/Regex/Posix/Wrap_hsc_make.o(.text+0x18d):Wrap_hsc_make.c: 
> more undefined references to `_impure_ptr' follow
> 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> linking dist\build\Text\Regex\Posix\Wrap_hsc_make.o failed
> 
> command was: y:\ghc\ghc-6.8.2\bin\ghc.exe -optl-LC:/cygwin/lib 
> dist\build\Text\Regex\Posix\Wrap_hsc_make.o -o 
> dist\build\Text\Regex\Posix\Wrap_hsc_make.exe
> 
> bash-3.2$
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Parnell
> 
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