Can't build on Windows

I've just cloned GHC, on Windows and typed "sh validate". But it dies as below. And indeed the directory ghc-tarballs doesn't exist. Should it? How do I get it? Thanks Simon Target platform inferred as: i386-unknown-mingw32 GHC build : i386-unknown-mingw32 GHC host : i386-unknown-mingw32 GHC target : i386-unknown-mingw32 configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd checking for path to top of build tree... C:/code/ghc-injective configure: Making in-tree mingw tree tar (child): ../../ghc-tarballs/mingw/binutils*.tar.lzma: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ./configure: line 4217: inplace/mingw/bin/realgcc.exe: No such file or directory configure: In-tree mingw tree created

I’ve just cloned GHC, on Windows and typed “sh validate”. But it dies as
below. And indeed the directory ghc-tarballs doesn’t exist. Should it? How do I get it?
git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git As described on the wiki: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#CloningHEAD There is an unfinished patch to make that step unnecessary: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339

Ah, thank you! Simon From: Thomas Miedema [mailto:thomasmiedema@gmail.com] Sent: 15 July 2015 00:07 To: Simon Peyton Jones Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: Can't build on Windows I’ve just cloned GHC, on Windows and typed “sh validate”. But it dies as below. And indeed the directory ghc-tarballs doesn’t exist. Should it? How do I get it? git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.githttp://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git As described on the wiki: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#CloningHEAD There is an unfinished patch to make that step unnecessary: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339
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