That may have been it, thanks.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Tamar Christina <lonetiger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmm no that doesn't seem familiar to me. It looks like some Windows style paths are being passed around but don't know why..

Are you running the non-emulating shells? E.g. The MinGW-w64 Win64 Shell bat?
From: Michael Snoyman
Sent: ‎8/‎21/‎2015 8:27
To: Tamar Christina
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Re: Building on Windows

That worked, and got me much farther. If you don't mind one more newb question, I'm now seeing the following. Any thoughts?

===--- building final phase
make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final all
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 utils/hp2ps/dist/build/tmp/hp2ps.exe inplace/bin/hp2ps.exe
cp driver/ghc-usage.txt inplace/lib/ghc-usage.txt
cp driver/ghci-usage.txt inplace/lib/ghci-usage.txt
"inplace/bin/ghc-stage1.exe" -o driver/ghci/dist/build/tmp/ghci.exe -hisuf hi -osuf  o -hcsuf hc -static  -H32m -O     -i -idriver/ghci/. -idriver/ghci/dist/build -idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen -Idriver/ghci/dist/build -Idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen         -no-user-package-db -rtsopts      -odir driver/ghci/dist/build -hidir driver/ghci/dist/build -stubdir driver/ghci/dist/build    -static  -H32m -O     -i -idriver/ghci/. -idriver/ghci/dist/build -idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen -Idriver/ghci/dist/build -Idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen         -no-user-package-db -rtsopts      -no-auto-link-packages -no-hs-main  driver/ghci/dist/build/ghci.o driver/ghci/dist/build/../utils/cwrapper.o driver/ghci/dist/build/../utils/getLocation.o  driver/ghci/ghci.res
Warning: -rtsopts and -with-rtsopts have no effect with -no-hs-main.
    Call hs_init_ghc() from your main() function to set these options.
gcc.exe: error: driverghcidistbuildghci.o: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: error: driverghcidistbuild..utilscwrapper.o: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: error: driverghcidistbuild..utilsgetLocation.o: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: error: driverghcighci.res: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: error: C:msys64-2tmpghc6528_0ghc_4.o: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: error: C:msys64-2tmpghc6528_0ghc_2.o: No such file or directory
driver/ghci/ghc.mk:39: recipe for target 'driver/ghci/dist/build/tmp/ghci.exe' failed
make[1]: *** [driver/ghci/dist/build/tmp/ghci.exe] Error 1
Makefile:71: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
Awesome, thanks for the quick response Tamar. Cloning now.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Tamar Christina <lonetiger@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Michael,

Those instructions are for the GHC head. For 7.10 and earlier this page https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources/Legacy should have been updated but it seems it never was..

To get the tarballs on that version do
git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git

I will update the legacy page later.

Regards,
Tamar
From: Michael Snoyman
Sent: ‎8/‎21/‎2015 7:06
To: ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Building on Windows

I'm trying to test a patch I wrote for Windows builds[1]. I'm following the preparation guide[2], but my configure step fails[3] with config.log contents[4]. Note that I'm building on the ghc-7.10 branch, not master. Is it possible that this would contribute to the unrecognized --enable-tarballs-autodownload option, and/or the inability to compile C files?

[1] https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1158, handles long linker command line arguments
[2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows
[3] http://lpaste.net/139330
[4] http://lpaste.net/139331