Trying to build GHC 7.8.2 from sources on Windows 7, from msys2 shell, required binaries such as gcc, ld, ar are forced to those in inplace
#9101: Need option to use system gcc and binutils on Windows/msys2 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: cchantep | Owner: gintas Type: feature request | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: Type of failure: None/Unknown | Unknown/Multiple Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: #9218 | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * status: new => closed * resolution: => wontfix Comment: directories (windows-extra) I understand this is by design. Quoting Simon in this [https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-June/005174.html email] to ghc-devs: "We physically include very selective chunks of MinGW in a GHC Windows distribution - so that users don't need to install MinGW - so that GHC doesn't break just because a user has a different version of MinGW than we expected We keep these chunks of MinGW in the GHC repo (in ghc-tarballs) precisely so that we know exactly which bits to ship. The intention is that the MinGW bits shipped with GHC are essentially invisible to the user. They just see a ghc.exe, which just happens internally to call some Mingw binaries." But the version of MinGW shipped with GHC at the moment is indeed out of date. Please subscribe to #9218 for updates. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9101#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler