RE: Building on Windows: the saga continues

2012-12-19 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
I've opened a ticket for this: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7510 Simon | -Original Message- | From: cvs-ghc-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-boun...@haskell.org] | On Behalf Of Ian Lynagh | Sent: 18 December 2012 18:22 | To: cvs-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Buildi

RE: Building on Windows: the saga continues

2012-12-19 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
s-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Building on Windows: the saga continues | | On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:01:28PM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | > | On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:21:44AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | > | > | > | > o There's a seg-fault | > | | > |

Re: Building on Windows: the saga continues

2012-12-18 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:01:28PM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > | On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:21:44AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > | > > | > o There's a seg-fault > | > | I can reproduce this. I'll look into it. > > Great, thank you. > > It turns out that simply > > ghc-stage

RE: Building on Windows: the saga continues

2012-12-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:21:44AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | > | > o There's a seg-fault | | I can reproduce this. I'll look into it. Great, thank you. It turns out that simply ghc-stage2 -debug or ghc-stage2 -prof is enough to trigger the seg-fault. Any "way" fla

Building on Windows: the saga continues

2012-12-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends As you know I am trying to build GHC on Windows. This has worked for years, but I have not been able to do it in the last fortnight. Progress has been made: *With Ian's help I updated 'autoreconf' which solved my first show-stopper *With Eirk's help I got past the myste

Re: Building on windows

2012-12-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:56:15AM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > OK so I installed a new mingw installation, and indeed got a lot further with > configuring etc. Excellent. But now I'm stuck again with "no such > instruction" errors when compiling AduustorAsm.s. > > This is on Windows usi

Building on windows

2012-12-15 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
OK so I installed a new mingw installation, and indeed got a lot further with configuring etc. Excellent. But now I'm stuck again with "no such instruction" errors when compiling AduustorAsm.s. This is on Windows using msys. Can anyone help? Or tell me what to try? Very frustrating! I can'

[commit: ghc] master: Use touchy rather than touch when building on Windows (2694bb7)

2011-12-02 Thread Ian Lynagh
agh Date: Fri Dec 2 16:55:28 2011 + Use touchy rather than touch when building on Windows With Windows 7 in a vitrual box VM on OS X, some very odd things happen with dates and time stamps when SSHing into cygwin. e.g. here the "Change" time is in the past:

patch applied (ghc): Wibble ghc-pkg imports to fix building on Windows

2008-09-17 Thread Ian Lynagh
Wed Sep 17 14:08:13 PDT 2008 Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Wibble ghc-pkg imports to fix building on Windows M ./utils/ghc-pkg/Main.hs -2 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/patches/20080917210813-3fd76-4bb1b38ee7108d75192fedad22d02dd6d32c6