I've looked into this. Current test script picks msys2-compiled python, which, after your modification, can't find 'windll', because msys2-compiled python is cygwin-like and it's 'ctypes' has no 'windll'. If we rewrite the relevant part of script thus: config.msys2 = False .... elif v.startswith("MINGW"): config.msys2 = True .... # Try to use UTF8 if windows: import ctypes if config.cygwin or config.msys2: # Is this actually right? Which calling convention does it use? # As of the time of writing, ctypes.windll doesn't exist in the # cygwin python, anyway. mydll = ctypes.cdll else: mydll = ctypes.windll then we go slightly further and fail with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "../driver/runtests.py", line 151, in <module> import ctypes File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 451, in <module> pythonapi = PyDLL("libpython%d.%d.dll" % _sys.version_info[:2]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 365, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) OSError: No such file or directory And this is definitely a bug in msys2 python, because there is no such a file ("libpython*.dll) anywhere in msys2 distribution. What could be possible solutions? 1. I'm seeing a new version of Msys2 appearing right now here http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/i686/. It is now a bunch of separate packages, I've looked into python 2.7.5 package and found ctypes-related things definitely changed. Thus we could wait a couple of days until Msys2 release process is finished and installation information is available, hoping it's python is working properly. 2. Another approach is to modify testing infrastructure to use some pure win32/mingw based python distribution. But I'm in no way an expert here, sorry. Cheers, Kyra On 11/12/2013 02:10, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Austin, or others,
It would be SO GREAT if it was possible to validate on Windows again.
Currently I'm using msys2, which builds GHC fine, but things fail badly in the testsuite.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../driver/runtests.py", line 144, in <module>
raise Exception("Can't detect Windows terminal type")
Exception: Can't detect Windows terminal type
uname --s returns MINGW_NT-6.2
Changing the test from
elif v.startswith("MINGW32"):
to
elif v.startswith("MINGW"):
just produces a new error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../driver/runtests.py", line 155, in <module>
mydll = ctypes.windll
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'windll'
../mk/test.mk:242: recipe for target 'test' failed
It's all very frustrating because I can't validate. Can anyone help?
Simon
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