Hi Neil,
On Tue, 08 May 2007 00:34:10 +0900, Neil Mitchell
I've prepared a GHC 6.6.1 Windows installer. Before I offer this up as an official installer, could people please test it?
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1-i386-windows-test1.exe
You forgot to include GLUT and readline packages. I think you can't build these packages, so you don't include it. This is well-known problem, if build GHC your self. Because MInGW doesn't have these headers and library files in its directory. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-October/011253.h... http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2006-December/018919.html So you must copy these files from old GHC's directory first, and then building new GHC.
The new features of this installer (relative to the 6.6 one) are:
* Prettier .hs icons * Automatically adds GHC and Cabal binaries to the %PATH% * 10Mb smaller (better compression)
Thanks to Duncan for answering installer related questions.
And can you add Installation Mode to your installer? There is no C++ files in your installer. But if anyone want to build C++ source code by GHC, he disappoint about that. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1024 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2007-April/thread.htm... On the other hand, if anyone want to install sommaller GHC, he doesn't want to install unnecessary things. And we can point out that for other things. For example, we want to include extra libraries or not, we want to include OpenAL and ALUT or not (these package can buid only when building GHC now. because OpenAL and ALUT libraries are built by ccall convention, but these package use stdcall convention on Windows now. And -fvia-C convert stdcall to ccall). http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-September/011112... http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/hopengl/2007-March/000715.html http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1140 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1243 So I think we will become happy, if adding Installation Mode and maintain that on GHC's darcs repository. Best Regards, -- shelarcy <shelarcy hotmail.co.jp> http://page.freett.com/shelarcy/