So to summarise, the following are missing from the binary distribution that Neil used as the basis for his installer: * readline * ALUT * OpenAL * GLUT * C++ support in the bundled GCC right? I can try to roll another binary distribution, but I don't know much about these packages or C++ support so I'm guessing a bit. shelarcy wrote:
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.
That sounds scary - what about incompatible versions?
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...
The reason I didn't enable C++ support in prep-bin-dist-mingw is because of that comment, and because I don't know how to test it. Basically I chickened out. Are you saying it should just be uncommented in prep-bin-dist-mingw? Cheers, Simon