Re: Cygwin version

Tuomo Valkonen wrote:

On 2009-03-09, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:

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On 2009-03-09, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:

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On 2009-03-09, John Meacham wrote:

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perhaps the most recent non-cabalized ghc build might be worth a try. I think darcs still compiles with ghc 6.6, but am not positive., Mingw-bootstrap, source, or both? Tried with both. Got:

ghc.exe: unknown package: unix

With './configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin32 --with-gcc=c:/cygwin/bin/gcc --with-ld=c:/cygwin/bin/ld' I got to the point:

../compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-mno-cygwin -optc-O -optc-Wall -optc-W -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return -optc-Wbad-function-cast -optc-I../includes -optc-I. -optc-Iparallel -optc-DCOMPILING_RTS -optc-fomit-frame-pointer -optc-fno-strict-aliasing -H16m -O -optc-O2 -static -I. -#include HCIncludes.h -fvia-C -dcmm-lint -c Adjustor.c -o Adjustor.o make: *** [Adjustor.o] Error 1

The stage1 ghc-inplace doesn't seem to be able to produce neither code nor an error message. It just fails. It also isn't a cygwin program according to ldd; should it be?

You're doing a *port* here, to create a GHC that can generate Cygwin binaries, using a GHC that generates MinGW binaries to bootstrap from. This isn't something you should expect to work out of the box :-) For a start, you should set your platforms like this: build = i386-unknown-mingw32 host = i386-unknown-mingw32 target = i386-unknown-cygwin32 It looks like your stage1 compiler is crashing, but I have no idea why. If you're really interested in getting this working, expect to have to do a lot of hacking in GHC's internals, build system, and libraries. We're here to help, of course. Cheers, Simon