Hello Sigbjorn, Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 3:58:03 AM, you wrote:
the official Win32 distro does not contain cc1plus.exe, needed to compile CPP files
SF> Should GHC binary dists include a C++ compiler? I'd say SF> no, but if there are practical and compelling reasons to do SF> so, it's no big deal to re-include the binary. well, i scanned a number of libs and apps and found that they all include only C sources (not counting wxHaskell, which anyway is distributed in precompiled form). so i'm a bit out of luck: my program contains huge C++ libs. so i need to include in my program and library instructions to install C++ compiler. but this depends on the version of GHC installed. may be you can include such instructions in your distro? something like it: "In order to compile C++ files, you nedd to download ... and then install/unapck it to the $GHC/gcc-lib directory" btw, i just copied cc1plus.exe to this directory from migw32 3.4.2 installation. is that enough? and thank you - installer size was really greatly reduced in this version -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com