Ø Perhaps it is.  Should I blow it away and re-install?

I’d hold on that this. I have just tried building myself and also hit it.

Taking a closer look, it seems that the .o file being produces isn’t an object file but an image file. It contains the standard image headers and a PE signature.

GHC is doing the right thing in error out here. I think this is coming from D1242, there’s a linker script in there driver/utils/merge_sections.ld that’s causing ld on windows to output an image file instead of an object file.

I’m afraid I am not familiar enough with ld to offer a proper fix, but to get you working again:

In rules/build-package-way.mk on line 154, remove the “$(if $(filter YES,$(LdIsGNULd)),-T $$($1_$2_LD_SCRIPT))” bit.

That should get It working again.

Regards,

Tamar

From: Simon Peyton Jones
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 14:39
To: Tamar Christina;David Macek;ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Window build broken

|  Presumably Simon didn't change this. Maybe the msys2 install is broken?

Perhaps it is.  Should I blow it away and re-install?

One other difficulty is that (before my machine change) I tried to follow the instructions on https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows to install 64-bit msys2; but I had a series of problems that Ben G was unable to get to the bottom of.  Particularly I could not run bash from emacs; the emacs shell window never got as far as a prompt.  So I backed off.  As far as I know that is still broken.

I think I have not tried the "32-bit msys2 installer" on that page.  Maybe that should be my next step?

Regardless, it's hard to see how any of this concerns the error message I was getting.  As lonetiger said, it looks very similar to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10437

What next?

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----

|  From: Tamar Christina [mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com]

|  Sent: 18 November 2015 09:14

|  To: David Macek; Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org

|  Subject: RE: Window build broken

| 

|  Hmm,

| 

|  Presumably Simon didn't change this. Maybe the msys2 install is broken?

| 

|  TamarFrom: David Macek

|  Sent: 18/11/2015 09:35

|  To: Simon Peyton Jones; lonetiger@gmail.com; ghc-devs@haskell.org

|  Subject: Re: Window build broken

|  On 18. 11. 2015 9:29, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

|  > It’s msys2.  I don’t have Cygwin on this machine.  I have no idea where

|  that prompt comes from, but I agree it’s suspicious.

| 

|  Looks like your /etc/fstab is wrong. There should be a line like this one,

|  that removes the `cygdrive` prefix from Windows drive/letter

|  mounts:

| 

|  none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl,user 0 0

| 

|  --

|  David Macek