RE: Windows build problems

2011-09-16 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| If you get it to work, I'd appreciate detailed (Windows is so far utterly | incomprehensible to me, so they'd better be very explicit) instructions. | | | I feel your pain. The Windows instructions could definately use some | updating. :) | | I ended up getting an error during stage 2 about

Re: Windows build problems

2011-09-16 Thread Bill Tutt
I'm thinking that I want to modify libraries/base/configure.ac to implement this pseudo-code: Psedo code: if $WINDOWS YES or --with-iconv-libraries was specified then: FP_SEARCH_LIBS_PROTO(iconv, ...) else skip iconv checking with message That way the GHC binary on Windows doesn't grow a

Windows build problems

2011-09-15 Thread Daniel Fischer
I'm trying to set up a build/test environment on Windows. Building ghc (sh validate) fails after a while due to flex and bison crashing. Those two come with git and even $ flex --version (or bison) crashes, so they seem truly hosed. Do I need flex/bison at all to build ghc? It seems they're not

Re: Windows build problems

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Tutt
From Daniel Fischer: I'm trying to set up a build/test environment on Windows. Building ghc (sh validate) fails after a while due to flex and bison crashing. Those two come with git and even $ flex --version (or bison) crashes, so they seem truly hosed. Do I need flex/bison at all to

Re: Windows build problems

2011-09-15 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 15 September 2011, 21:41:10, Bill Tutt wrote: From Daniel Fischer: I'm trying to set up a build/test environment on Windows. Building ghc (sh validate) fails after a while due to flex and bison crashing. Those two come with git and even $ flex --version (or bison)

Re: Windows build problems

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Tutt
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com wrote: flex appears to be required from integer-gmp's ./configure for one of GMP's demo programs. (a calculator demo I think) I can't find anything indicating that on linux, so it'd be probably be due to using

Re: Windows build problems

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Tutt
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Bill Tutt b...@tutts.org wrote: I ended up getting an error during stage 2 about the iconv.dll not being findable. (I'm guessing the new msys/mingw autosmarted GHC boot/configure or cabal configure process somehow ) Yep. This is most likely the problem.

Re: Windows build problems

2011-09-15 Thread B. Scott Michel
. -scooter Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Bill Tutt b...@tutts.org Sender: glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:22:34 To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: Re: Windows build problems On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Bill