[Yhc] Problems installing YHC on Windows XP

[Bryan Burgers]

On 3/2/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> > [snip]
>
> We don't support the gcc from MingW, in fact we don't support GCC on
> Windows at all. We only support Visual Studio.
>
> All is not lost though, if you do:
> > scons build yhc
> > scons build libraries
>
> Then download a snapshot from
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/yhc/snapshot/ and extra yhi.exe into
> inst\bin, you'll have a working Yhc installation built mainly from
> source, and can hack the Haskell side of Yhc easily enough. I develop
> Yhc using this setup on some machines.
>
> We should get GCC/GHC working as C compilers under Windows.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil

That worked perfectly. I do not currently have the desire to work on
the C portion of the project anyway, so this solution works well for
me right now. Thanks!

Bryan