April 2003 - Nhc-users

Crytpo for nhc
by Dominic Steinitz 18 May '03

18 May '03

I have been trying to write a Crypto library and so far it works with ghc and hugs. Am I right in thinking I am going to struggle with nhc? It uses Word8 and Word64 heavily. For example, cipher block chaining relies on xoring Word64. I attach the library and a test program. I'd be grateful for any suggestions on how to make it work with nhc. Dominic Steinitz

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Fw: [nhc-users] Problem installing nhc98 1.16 using bootstrap-from-C method
by David Bakin 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Sorry for the second message here - I should have said I just installed cygwin yesterday and it is v1.3.22-1. Also, I'm running on XP Pro. Thanks! -- Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: David Bakin To: nhc-users(a)haskell.org Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 9:10 PM Subject: [nhc-users] Problem installing nhc98 1.16 using bootstrap-from-C method I'm having trouble building nhc98 using bootstrap-from-C - the following shows the error I'm getting. It is actually executing in hmake3.config at the following line (the hmakerc add command) N:/nhc98-1.16/script/hmake-config N:/nhc98-1.16/lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmakerc add N:/nhc98-1.16/script/nhc98 davidbak@girlsprout /ndrive/nhc98-1.16/src/hmake $ make config sh N:/nhc98-1.16/targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake3.config hmake-config: Starting new config file in N:/nhc98-1.16/lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmakerc I/O error: action : openFile ReadMode on file: /cygdrive/c/TEMP\hmakeconfig.tmp gave : ENOENT (No such file or directory) hmake-config: compiler not known: 'N:/nhc98-1.16/script/nhc98' make: *** [config] Error 2 As you can see it thinks hmakeconfig.tmp is not there - and in fact it is not. Though it is a temporary file - I'm wondering if the problem is in RunAndReadStdout.hs where it does a removeFile - and has the comment "file will not be removed until readFile closes it". Actually I don't have the slightest idea if that is the problem or not. Anyhow, any hints on how I can get past this? Thanks! -- Dave

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Re: [nhc-users] porting to MS VC++.NET
by Malcolm Wallace 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

"David Bakin" <davidbak(a)attbi.com> writes: > By the way, I'd like to try to port nhc98 to Microsoft VC++.NET - just to > provide a more convenient environment. I am just getting started with nhc > (as you see) and have no idea how big a project this would be, though I can > imagine some of the common areas of difficulty (e.g., annoying things like > the file separators below). Has anyone tried this? I don't think anyone has tried it before. Aside from the basic platform differences you can already guess: * Add .exe to executable filenames * Use \ as a directory separator instead of / * PATH uses ; instead of : the main obstacles will be: * The Makefiles assume some GNU extensions * The Top-level drivers are shell-scripts On the latter point, nhc98 (and hmake) have shell-script drivers to interpret arguments and call the various stages (pre-processor, Haskell compiler, C compiler, assembler, linker, etc.). Since native windows doesn't have the Bourne shell, you either need to haul in Cygwin's 'bash' (and associated tools like sed, cut, etc) just for that job, or re-code the scripts (perhaps in Haskell?). Regards, Malcolm

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Problem installing nhc98 1.16 using bootstrap-from-C method
by David Bakin 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

I'm having trouble building nhc98 using bootstrap-from-C - the following shows the error I'm getting. It is actually executing in hmake3.config at the following line (the hmakerc add command) N:/nhc98-1.16/script/hmake-config N:/nhc98-1.16/lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmakerc add N:/nhc98-1.16/script/nhc98 davidbak@girlsprout /ndrive/nhc98-1.16/src/hmake $ make config sh N:/nhc98-1.16/targets/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmake3.config hmake-config: Starting new config file in N:/nhc98-1.16/lib/ix86-CYGWIN_NT-5.1/hmakerc I/O error: action : openFile ReadMode on file: /cygdrive/c/TEMP\hmakeconfig.tmp gave : ENOENT (No such file or directory) hmake-config: compiler not known: 'N:/nhc98-1.16/script/nhc98' make: *** [config] Error 2 As you can see it thinks hmakeconfig.tmp is not there - and in fact it is not. Though it is a temporary file - I'm wondering if the problem is in RunAndReadStdout.hs where it does a removeFile - and has the comment "file will not be removed until readFile closes it". Actually I don't have the slightest idea if that is the problem or not. Anyhow, any hints on how I can get past this? Thanks! -- Dave

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