Linking error in GHC 6.4.2 snapshot of 21 April (mingw).
When I downloaded and unpacked the latest GHC snapshot of the STABLE branch for Windows (ghc-6.4.2.20060421-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.gz), I got the following error trying to start GHCi: ___ ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.4.2, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... : c:/ghc/GHC-64~1.2/HSbase1.o: unknown symbol `_sqrtf' : unable to load package `base-1.0' ___ The complaint about _sqrtf also shows up when I try to compile/link anything with ghc; so the problem is bigger than just not being able to use GHCi. The GHC is installed in c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2, the PATH begins with c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2;c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\bin;c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\gcc-lib; LIBRARY_PATH is set to c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\gcc-lib I know for sure that the 6.4.2 snapshot of a couple of weeks ago worked fine, so I wonder what might be wrong with the latest one. I would appreciate any hints. Cheers, Cyril
Cyril Schmidt wrote:
When I downloaded and unpacked the latest GHC snapshot of the STABLE branch for Windows (ghc-6.4.2.20060421-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.gz), I got the following error trying to start GHCi: ___ ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.4.2, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help.
Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... : c:/ghc/GHC-64~1.2/HSbase1.o: unknown symbol `_sqrtf' : unable to load package `base-1.0' ___
The complaint about _sqrtf also shows up when I try to compile/link anything with ghc; so the problem is bigger than just not being able to use GHCi.
The GHC is installed in c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2, the PATH begins with c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2;c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\bin;c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\gcc-lib; LIBRARY_PATH is set to c:\ghc\ghc-6.4.2\gcc-lib
I know for sure that the 6.4.2 snapshot of a couple of weeks ago worked fine, so I wonder what might be wrong with the latest one. I would appreciate any hints.
Sigbjorn's candidate installer doesn't have this problem: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6-4-2-20060421.msi It's a bug in 6.4.2, sadly. Cheers, Simon
This solves the problem, thanks! Cyril Simon Marlow wrote:
Cyril Schmidt wrote:
When I downloaded and unpacked the latest GHC snapshot of the STABLE branch for Windows (ghc-6.4.2.20060421-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.gz), I got the following error trying to start GHCi:
Loading package base-1.0 ... linking ... : c:/ghc/GHC-64~1.2/HSbase1.o: unknown symbol `_sqrtf' : unable to load package `base-1.0'
Sigbjorn's candidate installer doesn't have this problem:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6-4-2-20060421.msi
It's a bug in 6.4.2, sadly.
Cheers, Simon
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