RE: building ghc from source

19 May 2003

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Mike Thomas [mailto:miketh@brisbane.paradigmgeo.com]
  Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:51 AM
  To: johago@web.de; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
  Subject: RE: building ghc from source

  Hi Johannes.

  Notice that the build fails the first time that "ghc-inplace" gets called.
Now look back at your configure output and see the line:

     checking whether we can open files in binary mode... no

  which should read:

     checking whether we can open files in binary mode... yes

  The problem is that when this step goes wrong on Windows, the compiler is
built in such a way that it can't read binary files (eg "*.hi")  correctly.

  I'm afraid I can't remember what caused this configuration test to go
wrong for me in the past, but I solved it by looking at the file
"configure.log", which I suggest you do.  I seem to recall that, due to a
compiler configuration problem, a header or library was not found, which
meant that the test program was doomed to fail.

  I can't say that this is the only problem you will have, but it is
certainly fatal on Windows so:

  Best of luck!

  Mike Thomas.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org]On Behalf Of johago@web.de
    Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 2:15 AM
    To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
    Subject: building ghc from source

    Hi there!

    I'm trying to build ghc from scratch under Windows XP... which gives me
    problems, problems, problems...

    Steps taken:

    ....bits removed....

    checking whether we can open files in binary mode... no

    .... more bits removed ...

    ../utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace  -f
../driver/package.conf --update-package
    <rt
    s.conf.installed
    Reading package info from stdin... done.
    Expanding embedded variables...done.
    warning: can't find GHCi lib `HSrts.o'
    Saving old package config file... done.
    Writing new package config file... done.

../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-mno-cygwin -optc-O -optc-Wall -optc-W -
    optc
    -Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declaration
s -o
    ptc-

Winline -optc-Waggregate-return -optc-Wbad-function-cast -optc-Wcast-align -
    optc
    -I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-
fram
    e-po
    inter -O2 -static -package-name rts -O -Rghc-timing     -c Adjustor.c -o
    Adjusto
    r.o
    <<ghc: 629196 bytes, 2 GCs, 19832/19832 avg/max bytes residency (1
samples),
    5M
    in use, 0.01 INIT (0.02 elapsed), 0.00 MUT (0.02 elapsed), 0.02 GC (0.03
    elapsed
    ) :ghc>>
    make[2]: *** [Adjustor.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/build/ghc/ghc'
    make: *** [all] Error 1

    --- snap ---

    Thanks very much for your suggestions in advance

    Bye,
    Johannes
    johago@web.de