Hi there.
I use normal latest cygwin installation, binary installation of ghc-4.08, and tell i686-pc-mingw32 to the configure of ghc.
Same here, except I used the standalone Mingw, which meant that I had to alter certain parts of the makefile which relied on Cygwin links (in the gmp library), and alter the parameters sent to GCC.
Looks like it's impossible to build it for the full cygwin (but does anybody care?)
I certainly don't !
and also I failed to --enable-win32-dlls (that is _it_ failed, not me :-); it stopped at something like Main.dll_o.
I haven't tried that option yet, as there is apparently a bug in Mingw for large heaps when linked dynamically.
During the build I was really scared looking at the resident sizes of the compiler process, which is an ordinary haskell application, with its most adequate application domain. Does it mean that my _real_ programs would expose the same?
Yeah, it's pretty big, but I guess that not all programs use as much memory as a compiler. Good luck. Mike Thomas.