Sorry, My message got sent prematurely. I was saying that the whole suite of tools needed to build GHC, Hugs, and Darcs on MSYS takes about 575MB; Cygwin is about 115MB of that and GHC 6.4.2 is 300MB of it. I have managed to get the binaries, HTML documentation (not DVI, PS, or PDF), and tests to build/run for GHC HEAD and Hugs HEAD. I am still working on Darcs HEAD. The versions of the tools I am using are: MinGW/MSYS Current: binutils 2.15.91-20040904 bison 2.0 gcc-core 3.4.2.20040916-1 gcc-g++ 3.4.2.20040916-1 mingw-runtime 3.9 mingw-utils 0.3 MSYS 1.0.10 MSYS DTK 1.0.1 libtool 1.5 w32api-3.6 automake 1.8.2 autoconf 2.59 CVS 1.11.22 DocBook XML 4.2 DocBook XSL 1.71.0 iconv 1.9.2 libcurl 7.15.4 libxml2 2.6.26 libxslt 1.1.17 zlib 1.2.3 Darcs 1.0.7 OpenSSL 0.9.8c Haddock 0.8 (HEAD as of today, the latest release, 0.7, will not build the GHC HEAD unmodified) Alex 2.0.1 Happy 1.15 GHC 6.4.2 Cygwin (latest as of today TODO: need version numbers) Regards, Brian On 9/10/06, Brian Smith wrote:

On 9/8/06, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

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I do recommend using MSYS as the environment, though. I find that GHC builds much, much faster using MSYS than using Cygwin.

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.

The tools needed to build GHC, Hugs, and Darcs take about 575MB of disk space. Cygwin takes

Do you know what tool versions are used for the automated builds?

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