Nice work! Edward
Excerpts from Andrey Mokhov's message of 2016-09-02 02:45:58 +0000: > Hi all, > > Summary: Building GHC on Windows using Hadrian and Stack got even simpler - > see https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/blob/master/doc/windows.md. > > > To build GHC on Windows you usually need to jump through a lot of hoops [1], > which may be confusing even for experienced GHC developers [2]. > > Hadrian to the rescue! > > Hadrian, a new build system for GHC that I've been developing [3], is written > in Haskell and can therefore be built and run via Stack that can install > appropriate bootstrapping GHC and MSYS2 environment in an automated and > robust way. This was first pointed out by Neil Mitchell [4], and I've > recently simplified build instructions even further. Here are all the steps: > > git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git > cd ghc > git clone git://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian > cd hadrian > stack setup > stack exec -- pacman -S autoconf automake-wrapper make patch tar --noconfirm > stack build > stack exec hadrian -- --directory ".." -j --flavour=quickest > > See more details here: > https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian/blob/master/doc/windows.md. > > NB: Hadrian can build Stage2 GHC, but there are still many limitations [5]. > Help make it better! > > [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows > [2] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-June/012340.html > [3] https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian > [4] http://neilmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/compiling-ghc-on-windows.html > [5] https://github.com/snowleopard/hadrian#current-limitations > > Cheers, > Andrey _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
