On 27. 6. 2016 10:01, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote: > Friends, esp Tamar, > > I am in happy possession of a new Surface Book, running Windows 10, which is > delightful – except that I can’t make the msys64 installation work, which is > crucial for GHC. Can any of you help? > > · I install it from here: > https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/, which seems to be > the canonical place. The actual 64-bit exe seems to be > msys2-x86_64-20160205.exe. > > · Installation goes fine > > · But when I launch the “MinGW-w54 Win64 shell” from the Start menu, > the screen flashes as if it is briefly putting up a window, but then the > window disappears. > > · Each time I do this the task manager shows that there is another > running ‘mintty.exe’. But it has no visible window > > > > Does anyone have any idea what I can do or how I can investigate? I can’t do > any GHC development without this!
Hi. Please try `C:\msys64\usr\bin\mintty.exe -h always -` (incl. the trailing dash). You can also try `C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash.exe -li` in case the culprit is really mintty. -- David Macek
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