On 9/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Peyton-Jones</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I do recommend using MSYS as the environment, though.&nbsp;&nbsp; I find
that GHC builds much, much faster using MSYS than using Cygwin.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I always use MSYS, not Cygwin, when building GHC and Hugs. (MSYS is pretty slow too--I can build GHC faster in Ubuntu 
6.06 in VMWare than I can when building it using MinGW.) But, I still need Cygwin because the tests require Cygwin python for some reason. <br><br>The tools needed to build GHC, Hugs, and Darcs take about 575MB of disk space. Cygwin takes&nbsp; 
<br><br>Do you know what tool versions are used for the automated builds?<br><br><br><br>Re<br></div><br></div>