Has anyone attempted / considered porting hmake to Cygwin?
I'd like to try HaXmL under ghc on Windows, but it seems to require hmake to build.
Just curious: is that the HaXmL in hslibs.Text that comes with ghc? Aren't hslibs thingies supposed to be portable (and ported/updated, if they come with a Haskell implementation)?
I made a naieve attempt to configure and build hmake under Cygwin myself, but the resulting Makefile tried to pass Cygwin-style /cygdrive/c/... paths to ghc, which promptly choked.
I'm no expert on configure, but who exactly is putting the /cygdrive/c/.. stuff in there? Cygwin should use its pretended filesystem, or indeed local paths, so perhaps someone is explicitly setting an absolute path or path-prefix. Can you configure with c:/ instead (I understand that ghc only chokes on cygwin specials, not on Windows-infelicities or local paths, and some cygwin tools are tolerant towards c:/.. style), perhaps by setting appropriate prefixes? I seem to remember that compiling HOpenGL with non-cygwin GHC under cygwin/Win2k, using configure and co, worked without such problems. Claus