Hi Johannes. Notice that the build fails the first time that "ghc-inplace" gets called. Now look back at your configure output and see the line: checking whether we can open files in binary mode... no which should read: checking whether we can open files in binary mode... yes The problem is that when this step goes wrong on Windows, the compiler is built in such a way that it can't read binary files (eg "*.hi") correctly. I'm afraid I can't remember what caused this configuration test to go wrong for me in the past, but I solved it by looking at the file "configure.log", which I suggest you do. I seem to recall that, due to a compiler configuration problem, a header or library was not found, which meant that the test program was doomed to fail. I can't say that this is the only problem you will have, but it is certainly fatal on Windows so: Best of luck! Mike Thomas. -----Original Message----- From: glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-admin@haskell.org]On Behalf Of johago@web.de Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 2:15 AM To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Subject: building ghc from source Hi there! I'm trying to build ghc from scratch under Windows XP... which gives me problems, problems, problems... Steps taken: 1. Installed latest ghc (v5.04.3) 2. Installed happy (v1.13) 3. Unpacked current ghc source distribution (ghc-5.04.3-src.tar.bz2) to c:/build/ghc 4. Downloaded the latest Cygwin distribution and installed it to c:/cygwin 5. Got latest MinGW distribution (MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe) and installed it to c:/MinGW 6. Added /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin to path in /etc/profile 7. Started Cygwin bash 8. Changed directory to /cygdrive/c/build/ghc 9. Entered "./configure --host=i386-unknown-mingw32 --with-gcc=/cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gc c". No errors occurred. --- snip --- $ ./configure --host=i386-unknown-mingw32 --with-gcc=/cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc creating cache ./config.cache *** The top of your build tree is: /cygdrive/c/build/ghc checking host system type... i386-unknown-mingw32 checking target system type... i386-unknown-mingw32 checking build system type... i386-unknown-mingw32 Canonicalised to: i386-unknown-mingw32 checking for ghc... /cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-5.04.3/bin/ghc checking version of ghc... 5.04.3 checking for nhc... no checking for nhc98... no checking for hbc... no checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes checking for perl... /bin/perl checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes checking for gcc... /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc checking whether the C compiler (/cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (/cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc ) is a cross-compile r... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc accepts -g... yes checking whether you have an ok gcc... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc -E checking whether /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/gcc accepts -mno-cygwin... yes checking for ok way to do context diffs... diff -C 1 checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for bison... no checking for byacc... no checking if it is an OK yacc... checking for what... : yacc checking for flex... flex checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for ar... /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/ar checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed checking for time... /usr/bin/time checking for gtar... no checking for tar... /usr/bin/tar checking for gzip... /usr/bin/gzip checking for openjade... no checking for jade... no checking for DocBook CATALOG... no Warning: You will not be able to build the documentation. checking for happy... /cygdrive/c/happy/happy-1.13/bin/happy checking for version of happy... 1.13 checking for haddock... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for Files.h... no checking for arpa/inet.h... no checking for assert.h... yes checking for console.h... no checking for ctype.h... yes checking for dirent.h... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for float.h... yes checking for ftw.h... no checking for grp.h... no checking for ieee754.h... no checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for nlist.h... no checking for pascal.h... no checking for pwd.h... no checking for sgtty.h... no checking for siginfo.h... no checking for signal.h... yes checking for stat.h... no checking for stdint.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking for stdarg.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for sys/fault.h... no checking for sys/file.h... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... no checking for sys/limits.h... no checking for sys/mman.h... no checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for sys/procfs.h... no checking for sys/resource.h... no checking for sys/signal.h... no checking for sys/socket.h... no checking for netdb.h... no checking for netinet/in.h... no checking for netinet/tcp.h... no checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for sys/syscall.h... no checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for sys/timeb.h... yes checking for sys/timers.h... no checking for sys/times.h... no checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/un.h... no checking for sys/utsname.h... no checking for sys/vadvise.h... no checking for sys/wait.h... no checking for termio.h... no checking for termios.h... no checking for time.h... yes checking for types.h... no checking for unistd.h... yes checking for utime.h... no checking for values.h... yes checking for vfork.h... no checking for bfd.h... yes checking for winsock.h... yes checking for pthread.h... no checking for sys/uio.h... no checking for readline/readline.h... no checking for readline/history.h... no checking for dos.h... yes checking for conio.h... yes checking for io.h... yes checking for std.h... no checking for windows.h... yes checking for GL/gl.h... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for dlfcn.h... no checking for dl.h... no checking for alloc.h... no checking for malloc.h... 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mpz/realloc.lo mpz/remove.lo mpz/root.lo mpz/rrandomb.lo mpz/scan 0.lo mpz/scan1.lo mpz/set.lo mpz/set_d.lo mpz/set_f.lo mpz/set_q.lo mpz/set_si.l o mpz/set_str.lo mpz/set_ui.lo mpz/setbit.lo mpz/size.lo mpz/sizeinbase.lo mpz/s qrt.lo mpz/sqrtrem.lo mpz/sub.lo mpz/sub_ui.lo mpz/swap.lo mpz/tdiv_ui.lo mpz/td iv_q.lo mpz/tdiv_q_2exp.lo mpz/tdiv_q_ui.lo mpz/tdiv_qr.lo mpz/tdiv_qr_ui.lo mpz /tdiv_r.lo mpz/tdiv_r_2exp.lo mpz/tdiv_r_ui.lo mpz/tstbit.lo mpz/ui_pow_ui.lo mp z/urandomb.lo mpz/urandomm.lo mpz/xor.lo mpn/mp_bases.lo mpn/udiv.lo mpn/umul.lo mpn/inlines.lo mpn/add_n.lo mpn/sub_n.lo mpn/mul_1.lo mpn/addmul_1.lo mpn/submu l_1.lo mpn/lshift.lo mpn/rshift.lo mpn/diveby3.lo mpn/divrem.lo mpn/divrem_1.lo mpn/divrem_2.lo mpn/mod_1.lo mpn/mod_1_rs.lo mpn/pre_mod_1.lo mpn/dump.lo mpn/mu l.lo mpn/mul_fft.lo mpn/mul_n.lo mpn/mul_basecase.lo mpn/sqr_basecase.lo mpn/ran dom.lo mpn/random2.lo mpn/sqrtrem.lo mpn/get_str.lo mpn/set_str.lo mpn/scan0.lo mpn/scan1.lo mpn/popcount.lo mpn/hamdist.lo mpn/cmp.lo mpn/perfsqr.lo mpn/bdivmo d.lo mpn/gcd_1.lo mpn/gcd.lo mpn/gcdext.lo mpn/tdiv_qr.lo mpn/bz_divrem_n.lo mpn /sb_divrem_mn.lo mpn/jacbase.lo mpn/copyi.lo mpn/copyd.lo mkdir .libs libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i386-unknown-mingw32 sh ared libraries rm -fr .libs/libgmp.la .libs/libgmp.* .libs/libgmp.* ar cru .libs/libgmp.a assert.o compat.o errno.o memory.o mp_set_fns.o mp_clz_ta b.o mp_minv_tab.o rand.o randclr.o randlc.o randlc2x.o randraw.o randsd.o randsd ui.o version.o stack-alloc.o mp_bpl.o extract-dbl.o insert-dbl.o mpz/abs.o mpz/a dd.o mpz/add_ui.o mpz/addmul_ui.o mpz/and.o mpz/array_init.o mpz/bin_ui.o mpz/bi n_uiui.o mpz/cdiv_q.o mpz/cdiv_q_ui.o mpz/cdiv_qr.o mpz/cdiv_qr_ui.o mpz/cdiv_r. o mpz/cdiv_r_ui.o mpz/cdiv_ui.o mpz/clear.o mpz/clrbit.o mpz/cmp.o mpz/cmp_si.o mpz/cmp_ui.o mpz/cmpabs.o mpz/cmpabs_ui.o mpz/com.o mpz/divexact.o mpz/dump.o mp z/fac_ui.o mpz/fdiv_q.o mpz/fdiv_q_2exp.o mpz/fdiv_q_ui.o mpz/fdiv_qr.o mpz/fdiv _qr_ui.o 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mpz/sqrtrem.o mpz/sub.o mpz/sub_ui.o mpz/swap.o mpz/td iv_ui.o mpz/tdiv_q.o mpz/tdiv_q_2exp.o mpz/tdiv_q_ui.o mpz/tdiv_qr.o mpz/tdiv_qr _ui.o mpz/tdiv_r.o mpz/tdiv_r_2exp.o mpz/tdiv_r_ui.o mpz/tstbit.o mpz/ui_pow_ui. o mpz/urandomb.o mpz/urandomm.o mpz/xor.o mpn/mp_bases.o mpn/udiv.o mpn/umul.o m pn/inlines.o mpn/add_n.o mpn/sub_n.o mpn/mul_1.o mpn/addmul_1.o mpn/submul_1.o m pn/lshift.o mpn/rshift.o mpn/diveby3.o mpn/divrem.o mpn/divrem_1.o mpn/divrem_2. o mpn/mod_1.o mpn/mod_1_rs.o mpn/pre_mod_1.o mpn/dump.o mpn/mul.o mpn/mul_fft.o mpn/mul_n.o mpn/mul_basecase.o mpn/sqr_basecase.o mpn/random.o mpn/random2.o mpn /sqrtrem.o mpn/get_str.o mpn/set_str.o mpn/scan0.o mpn/scan1.o mpn/popcount.o mp n/hamdist.o mpn/cmp.o mpn/perfsqr.o mpn/bdivmod.o mpn/gcd_1.o mpn/gcd.o mpn/gcde xt.o mpn/tdiv_qr.o mpn/bz_divrem_n.o mpn/sb_divrem_mn.o mpn/jacbase.o mpn/copyi. o mpn/copyd.o creating libgmp.la (cd .libs && rm -f libgmp.la && ln -s ../libgmp.la libgmp.la) make[5]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/build/ghc/ghc/rts/gmp' make[4]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/build/ghc/ghc/rts/gmp' ../utils/ghc-pkg/ghc-pkg-inplace --update-package > make[2]: *** [Adjustor.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/build/ghc/ghc' make: *** [all] Error 1 --- snap --- Thanks very much for your suggestions in advance Bye, Johannes johago@web.de