I'm feeling a bit frustrated (and perhaps stupid... :-]) for not being able to figure out the solution for my HOpenGL compilation problems... I really wonder why cygwin doesn't recognize a simple command like "ghc --version" anymore, and insists that I need to put a ".exe" suffix when trying to run every executable file (i.e., "ghc.exe --version" works). In the ./configure step, I get the message "No Haskell compiler not found" and I'm sure it is not related to the PATH, since it is set correctly. Perhaps this ".exe" problem has something to do with the error... Previous attempts to reinstall cygwin (including removing it from windows98 register and installing it again) were not successful: the ".exe" problem still happens. I followed all steps in http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/panne/cygwin/opengl_gl ut.html and previous emails, but I think I'm stuck in something earlier. Any suggestions are highly welcome, as always. Cheers, -- Andre
Andre Furtado wrote:
[ Cygwin ".exe" problem ]
I don't have a clue what causes your problems with the .exe suffix, but configure's failure to find a working GHC is definitely a consequence of this. I'm not a Cygwin expert and the current version works for me "out of the box" on Win2k. Have you tried MinGW/MSYS instead of Cygwin? Perhaps this works for you.
I followed all steps in http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/panne/cygwin/opengl_gl... [...]
These steps are not necessary anymore if you use a recent Cygwin or MinGW/MSYS, see http://haskell.org/HOpenGL/INSTALL. Cheers, S.
This .exe problem is the key problem.
When you type ghc by itself, what is the error
message?
Cygwin is supposed to translate ghc to ghc.exe
automatically (and does).
The only thing I can think of is you have another file
named 'ghc' that is on the path and is blocking the
translation.
Look also here for more on the way cygwin handles
".exe":
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
--- Andre Furtado
I'm feeling a bit frustrated (and perhaps stupid... :-]) for not being able to figure out the solution for my HOpenGL compilation problems... I really wonder why cygwin doesn't recognize a simple command like "ghc --version" anymore, and insists that I need to put a ".exe" suffix when trying to run every executable file (i.e., "ghc.exe --version" works). In the ./configure step, I get the message "No Haskell compiler not found" and I'm sure it is not related to the PATH, since it is set correctly. Perhaps this ".exe" problem has something to do with the error...
Previous attempts to reinstall cygwin (including removing it from windows98 register and installing it again) were not successful: the ".exe" problem still happens.
I followed all steps in
http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/panne/cygwin/opengl_gl
ut.html and previous emails, but I think I'm stuck in something earlier.
Any suggestions are highly welcome, as always.
Cheers, -- Andre
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