Hi, At ICFP Simon Peyton Jones encouraged me to compile GHC on Windows. I did so in the past about 5 years ago, and it was a painful experience. To help improve the path for those who come after me, I kept a log (which I'll share after I get a working build). My current state is that I get an error while running make while building stage2: "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1.exe" -hisuf hi -osuf o -hcsuf hc -static -H32m -O -this-package-key haske_9y30zKcKDr9BxdhpktYrNk -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/haskeline/. -ilibraries/haskeline/dist-install/build -ilibraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/haskeline/dist-install/build -Ilibraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/autogen -Ilibraries/haskeline/includes -optP-DUSE_GHC_ENCODINGS -optP-DMINGW -optP-include -optPlibraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h -package-key Win32_43THQMouBnk2wpnouztX1X -package-key base_ESD4aQEEWwsHtYJVc1BwtJ -package-key bytes_Kc0PyaputnzDnBdZW0y2Gv -package-key conta_ChF4XLXB9JmByIycPzerow -package-key direc_6qC0tVrFkqbBNeWAGS0s7g -package-key filep_34DFDFT9FVD9pRLLgh8IdQ -package-key trans_5jw4w9yTgmZ89ByuixDAKP -Wall -XHaskell98 -XForeignFunctionInterface -XRank2Types -XFlexibleInstances -XTypeSynonymInstances -XFlexibleContexts -XExistentialQuantification -XScopedTypeVariables -XGeneralizedNewtypeDeriving -XMultiParamTypeClasses -XOverlappingInstances -XUndecidableInstances -XCPP -XDeriveDataTypeable -XPatternGuards -O2 -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -odir libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build -hidir libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build -stubdir libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build -split-objs -c libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/System/Console/Haskeline/Backend/Win32.hs -o libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/System/Console/Haskeline/Backend/Win32.o on the commandline: Warning: -XOverlappingInstances is deprecated: instead use per-instance pragmas OVERLAPPING/OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPS librarieshaskelineSystemConsoleHaskelineBackendWin32.hsc:263:15: No instance for (Applicative (Draw m)) arising from the 'deriving' clause of a data type declaration Possible fix: use a standalone 'deriving instance' declaration, so you can specify the instance context yourself When deriving the instance for (Monad (Draw m)) librarieshaskelineSystemConsoleHaskelineBackendWin32.hsc:263:21: No instance for (Applicative (Draw m)) arising from the 'deriving' clause of a data type declaration Possible fix: use a standalone 'deriving instance' declaration, so you can specify the instance context yourself When deriving the instance for (MonadIO (Draw m)) librarieshaskelineSystemConsoleHaskelineBackendWin32.hsc:263:29: No instance for (Applicative (Draw m)) arising from the 'deriving' clause of a data type declaration Possible fix: use a standalone 'deriving instance' declaration, so you can specify the instance context yourself When deriving the instance for (MonadException (Draw m)) librarieshaskelineSystemConsoleHaskelineBackendWin32.hsc:263:45: No instance for (Applicative (Draw m)) arising from the 'deriving' clause of a data type declaration Possible fix: use a standalone 'deriving instance' declaration, so you can specify the instance context yourself When deriving the instance for (MonadReader Handles (Draw m)) libraries/haskeline/ghc.mk:4: recipe for target 'libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/System/Console/Haskeline/Backend/Win32.o' failed make[1]: *** [libraries/haskeline/dist-install/build/System/Console/Haskeline/Backend/Win32.o] Error 1 Makefile:71: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 Any idea how to overcome that? I note from the weekly update email that there was an email on Windows last night, but a "./sync-all pull" doesn't make it go away. Thanks, Neil