On 06 May 2004 14:50, Mauro La Salete Costa Lima de Araujo wrote:

Hi folks,

I would like to know what I have to do if I wanna have a ghc, built by myself, avaliable to my shell environment, so I can invoke it as normal ('ghc' :P). I've built the fptools according the instructions at 'http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/winbuild.html' and did a 'make install' under the fptools/ghc directory. But when I invoke the ghc, I get the following error:

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$ ghc ghc.exe: Can't find package.conf as C:\haskell\cygwin\usr\local\ghc\driver\package.conf.inplace

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what does it means? what I have to do to use my own copy of ghc instead of the '.msi' one?

GHC on Windows doesn't support 'make install', I'm afraid. Making a binary package on Windows is something of a black art. You can run ghc directly from the build tree, as fptools/ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace. Cheers, Simon