Found the problem in Sigbjørn Finne's FAQ at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sof/ghc-win32-faq.html: I had no /bin, only a /usr/bin. I've gotten hello world to compile so I'm off and running. If 5.00 wasn't switching to a Haskell driver I'd suggest updating the GHC installation on windows page with this FAQ. -- Dave

$ mount
Device              Directory           Type         Flags
c:\Cygwin\bin       /bin                user         textmode
c:\Cygwin\etc       /etc                user         textmode
c:\Cygwin\lib       /usr/lib            user         textmode
c:                  /                   user         textmode

----- Original Message -----

From: David Bakin

To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 12:47 AM

Subject: win32 4.08.2 install question

While waiting for 5.00 for win32 I thought I'd get started with 4.08.2 - downloaded it today and installed it and the latest cygwin as per instructions. However: When following the "test the fruits of your labour" I invoke "ghc -o main main.hs" and get back a bash prompt and that's all. No files created, e.g., no main. Same for "ghc -c main.hs". Something trivial must be wrong with my setup. I've copied the ghc/bin/perl to cygwin/bin. No spaces in any directories (ghc is installed at c:\ghc). My mounted dirs look like this:

C:\Cygwin\bin>mount
Device              Directory           Type         Flags
c:\Cygwin\bin       /usr/bin            user         textmode
c:\Cygwin\etc       /etc                user         textmode
c:\Cygwin\lib       /usr/lib            user         textmode
c:                  /                   user         textmode