On 13/12/12 10:30, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| Is installing a newer version of msys/mingw an option? The version I
| have here has autoreconf version 2.68, which I expect would just work.
Interesting. I had assumed that we used autoreconf from inplace/mingw/bin.
But there is no autoreconf there. So in fact the build system is using it from
c:/mys/1.0/bin. Is that right?
We had all these version-skew problems between MSYS and our build
system, which we beautifully resolved by including a tar-ball of
guaranteed-compatible msys binaries in the GHC source repo (and GHC
distributions). The C compiler is there, the linker. Why not
autoreconf??
All the build tools are installed separately, we only have the compiler
tools in the repository.
I have been to the msys/mingw install page
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started, downloaded mingw-get-inst, and run
it. It lets you decide what to install.
If you choose "MSYS basic system" you don't get autoreconf.
If you choose "MSYS developer toolkit" you do get autoreconf, in c:/mingw/bin.
But you get a lot of other developer-toolkit stuff too.
The wiki page is up to date I think:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows
it tells you what to select, including the developer toolkit. The
installation process is pretty smooth (much better than it used to be).
Cheers,
Simon
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