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

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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