Re: Building GHC on Windows

Sigbjorn Finne:

It works fine, but be mindful of how 'git' handles crlf translations on Windows. Having run into this a couple of times, it certainly looks the likely cause. Felix may want to try cloning as follows:

foo$ git config --global core.autocrlf false foo$ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git

Unfortunately i cannot change the global autocrlf flag because of other projects. I edited the sync-all script to fix the problem, but is good to know that line conversions may be the cause. It would be nice if sync-all (and other scripts) were written in portable Perl. Perl runs well on Windows whereas msys is brittle. Regards, Felix