Dear NHC98 maintainers, I was experimenting with nhc98 because I was led to believe that using it, I might be able to use the Haskell FFI to link with libraries built using Cygwin. Unfortunately, I never got far enough to try that; it's failing right out of the box. First I tried the binary distribution. The configure and install process seemed to go smoothly, but in my first attempt to use the compiler I get: /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 547: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/nhc98comp: No such file or directory I then tried to build from source, but with no better luck. Configure seems to go smoothly, but the build breaks down quickly: bash-3.1$ make ghc -cpp -o lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA script/hmake-PRAGMA.hs cd src/runtime; make all nhc98heap.exe make[1]: Entering directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' Makefile:27: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' make: *** [targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/runtime] Error 2 bash-3.1$ gmake bash: gmake: command not found bash-3.1$ which make /usr/bin/make bash-3.1$ make cd src/runtime; make all nhc98heap.exe make[1]: Entering directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' Makefile:27: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' make: *** [targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/runtime] Error 2 Any idea what I might be doing wrong? -- Karl Crary
Karl Crary
I was experimenting with nhc98 because I was led to believe that using it, I might be able to use the Haskell FFI to link with libraries built using Cygwin.
Should be possible, yes.
First I tried the binary distribution. The configure and install process seemed to go smoothly, but in my first attempt to use the compiler I get:
/usr/local/bin/nhc98: line 131: C:/cygwin/usr/local/lib/nhc98/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake-PRAGMA: No such file or directory
The executable hmake-PRAGMA.exe is certainly included in the tar bundle. As far as I can see, it should therefore have been installed in the quoted directory, given the standard installation prefix. Is it there? If so, then maybe the driver script for nhc98 just needs to know about the .exe suffix (but that would seem unlikely in Cygwin).
I then tried to build from source, but with no better luck. Configure seems to go smoothly, but the build breaks down quickly:
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/nhc98-1.18/src/runtime' Makefile:27: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
Did you use a Windows-style pathname at configure-time? (e.g. --prefix="C:\blah") Replacing that with a Cygwin unix-style pathname might fix it (e.g. --prefix="/c/blah"). Regards, Malcolm
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