I'm having another go at Building Cabal for Windows, this time using the make utility from mingw. (HMake doesn't serve, as it's specific to compiling Haskell programs. Mainly, I need to get the preprocessing performed for loading into Hugs). Issues noted. ... 1. The "mkdir -p" command fails: under Windows, the syntax of this command is different. I realize there are many other Unix shell commands that just wont work in a make file under Windows, so I'm going to proceed to create a Windows-specific makefile for Hugs. 2. I've replaced the GHC invocations with cpphs, rather like the makefile target for creating documentation. 3. I've changed the temporary target directory to dist\tmp\Distribution (needs to be the right name to match hierarchical module names with Hugs). Also created subdirectory Simple. Also copied Setup.lhs to dist\tmp, and used that as the Haskell program to be run using RunHugs. 4. I also create a target directory and preprocessing commands for the Compat modules: dist\tmp\Compat. 5. At this point, using a batch file to run Setup, I can issue the command Setup --help: [[ E:\HaskellTools\cabal>C:\DEV\Hugs98\runhugs-20040109.exe dist\tmp\Setup.lhs --he lp Usage: disttmpSetup.lhs [GLOBAL FLAGS] COMMAND [FLAGS] Global flags: -h, -? --help Show this help text Commands: configure Prepare to build the package. build Make this package ready for installation. clean Clean up after a build. install Copy the files into the install locations. sdist Generate a source distribution file (.tar.gz or .zip). register Register this package with the compiler. unregister Unregister this package with the compiler. For more information about a command, try 'disttmpSetup.lhs COMMAND --help'. E:\HaskellTools\cabal> ]] It's a small thing, but it looks as if the path separators in 'dist\tmp\Setup.lhs' are being inappropriately interpreted. 6. I tweak the makefile to be sensitive to the presence of 'dist\tmp\Setup.lhs', and running Setup config gives this: [[ E:\HaskellTools\cabal>make config .\Setup configure --hugs --prefix=E:\Temp\Cabal E:\HaskellTools\cabal>RunHaskell dist\tmp\Setup.lhs configure --hugs --prefix E: \Temp\Cabal E:\HaskellTools\cabal>C:\DEV\Hugs98\runhugs-20040109.exe dist\tmp\Setup.lhs configure --hugs --prefix E:\Temp\Cabal Configuring Cabal-0.1... configure: searching for hugs in path. Cannot find compiler for hugs make: *** [config] Error 1 E:\HaskellTools\cabal> ]] I guess this is because of my unusual Hugs setup: (a) I don't have Hugs on the path, and (b) I am currently using a non-standard name for the RunHugs executable. Both problems are resolved if I can override the search for the RunHugs executable with a command line option to specify it. That looks like the "--with-compiler" option. I try using that with the name of my batch file (which is on the path), but get a different error: [[ E:\HaskellTools\cabal>C:\DEV\Hugs98\runhugs-20040109.exe dist\tmp\Setup.lhs configure --hugs --with-compiler RunHaskell --prefix E:\Temp\Cabal Configuring Cabal-0.1... configure: looking for package tool: hugs-package near compiler in RunHaskell Cannot find package tool: ./hugs-package make: *** [config] Error 1 E:\HaskellTools\cabal> ]] OK, it seems to need the actual Hugs executable to find the proper path, so I'll have to make that available and try again: [[ E:\HaskellTools\cabal>C:\DEV\Hugs98\runhugs-20040109.exe dist\tmp\Setup.lhs conf igure --hugs --with-compiler C:\DEV\Hugs98\Hugs.exe --prefix E:\Temp\Cabal Configuring Cabal-0.1... configure: looking for package tool: hugs-package near compiler in C:DEVHugs98Hu gs.exe Cannot find package tool: ./hugs-package make: *** [config] Error 1 E:\HaskellTools\cabal> ]] I note the '\' in the filename are being processed incorrectly again. Also, it still can't find the package tool ./hugs-package. ... That's about as far as I'm going to get here. My makefile so far is: [[ PREF=E:\Temp\Cabal CPPHS=RunHaskell ..\cpphs\cpphs.hs --noline HUGS=C:\DEV\Hugs98\Hugs.exe # build the library itself: for Hugs, this is simply preprocessing into a new directory dist/tmp/Setup.lhs: mkdir dist\tmp\Distribution\Simple mkdir dist\tmp\Compat copy Setup.lhs dist\tmp\Setup.lhs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Package.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Package.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Misc.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Misc.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Version.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Version.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Setup.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Setup.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/ModuleTest.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/ModuleTest.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Make.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Make.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/InstalledPackageInfo.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/InstalledPackageInfo.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/Build.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/Build.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/Install.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/Install.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/Register.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/Register.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/Simple/GHCPackageConfig.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/Simple/GHCPackageConfig.hs $(CPPHS) Distribution/GetOpt.hs > dist/tmp/Distribution/GetOpt.hs $(CPPHS) Compat/Exception.hs > dist/tmp/Compat/Exception.hs $(CPPHS) Compat/H98.hs > dist/tmp/Compat/H98.hs $(CPPHS) Compat/RawSystem.hs > dist/tmp/Compat/RawSystem.hs $(CPPHS) Compat/ReadP.hs > dist/tmp/Compat/ReadP.hs setup-hugs: dist/tmp/Setup.lhs setup: setup-hugs config: setup .\Setup configure --hugs --with-compiler=$(HUGS) --prefix=$(PREF) ]] My Setup.bat file is: [[ rem run setup program for installing cabal rem assumes that RunHaskell utility or batch file is on the path RunHaskell dist\tmp\Setup.lhs %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 ]] My RunHaskell.bat file is: [[ C:\DEV\Hugs98\runhugs-20040109.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ]] (As I mentioned, I'm using a modified version of RunHugs, hence the unusual filename.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact