Hello, Rodrigo Geraldo wrote:
I start to "hack" GHC, and, I 've tried to build it, but the build return this error message :
configure: GMP_CHECK_ASM_W32: fatal: do not know how to define a 32- bit word make[1]: *** [boot] Error 1
I've tried to build GHC using mSYS and MinGW under MS windows xp...
This is an error from the internal GMP library's configure file, $ (top_level)/rts/gmp/configure. If you don't have gmp installed already, the GHC build system tries to build it for you. The build system for gmp is very delicate so I would suggest downloading a separate gmp library and installing that in your /usr/lib directory (for MinGW). The gmp library and header file for MinGW, avaliable from http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/core/gmp/ under 'gmp-static- mingw-4.1.tar.gz'. Once you have the library installed properly, the GHC build system will find it and won't attempt to build gmp. I know it sounds like a workaround--we really ought to ensure the gmp build itself works--but in this case it is the gmp build that fails (swox.org's problem, not ours) and the current gmp system should be replaced soon by another library. (I am working on that but for lack of time I am running a bit late.) Cheers, Peter Tanski