Difference between revisions of "GHC under Wine"

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GHC runs flawlessly under Wine. Here's a guide on how to get it working.

Installation

First, get the latest version of Wine from http://www.winehq.com/site/download . For mac users, WineBottler works well.

Next, grab the latest windows version of GHC from http://haskell.org/ghc/download.html

installing ghc is as simple as typing: wine ghc-6.8.2-i386-unknown-mingw32.exe

Once this is all done, you should be good to start using GHC.

Testing

Create a simple haskell program to compile. Hello World examples are good. Try compiling it:

$ WINEDEBUG=-all wine ghc --make hello.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( hello.hs, hello.o )
Linking ...

$ wine hello
Hello, world!

If it all works well then you should be able to compile your Haskell programs for windows with GHC on Wine.

If you encounter specific, reproducible issues that are present in the latest release of wine you should file a bug report with the Wine project http://bugs.winehq.org (so long as one doesn't already exist for the issue)

Known problems

MSYS does not integrate with MinGW correctly - [See Wine bug 15949]
removeDirectoryRecursive did not work correctly prior to wine-1.1.4-538-g2e8dec4. This most notably broke cabal install. Use Wine 1.1.5 or newer.
GHC 6.12.3, Wine 1.2 (from WineBottler) on mac osx leopard: GHC's mingw/bin/gcc.exe exits with a "spawnv failed: errno 2: No such file or directory" error, which breaks cabal install. To work around, replace gcc.exe with a renamed copy of g++.exe, also in that directory ("ghc\bin\mingw> copy g++.exe gcc.exe").

Native DLLs

Wine isn't perfect (yet) but does offer a solution for using native dlls, as an alternative to builtin dlls if certain functions are not implemented or are buggy and not yet fixed. To configure this use winecfg where you can specify settings for the ordering of preferences for loading dlls, Builtin only, Native only, Builtin then Native and Native then Builtin.

winetricks can be useful for installing common native dlls or software

Debugging

You can enable tracing of various components within Wine to aid in debugging issues with Wine by using [Wine Debug Channels].

External Links

[GHC at the Wine AppDB]

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-[[Category:GHC|WINE]]
+[[Category:GHC|Wine]]
-[[GHC]] runs fairly well under Wine. Here's a guide on how to get it working.
+[[GHC]] runs flawlessly under Wine. Here's a guide on how to get it working.
 ==Installation==
-First, get the latest version of Wine from http://www.winehq.com/site/download  and install it.
+First, get the latest version of Wine from http://www.winehq.com/site/download . For mac users, WineBottler works well.
 Next, grab the latest [[windows]] version of GHC from http://haskell.org/ghc/download.html
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 Create a simple haskell program to compile. Hello World examples are good. Try compiling it:<br/>
-<code><pre>$ wine ghc -o hello --make HelloWorld.hs
+<code><pre>$ WINEDEBUG=-all wine ghc --make hello.hs
+[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( hello.hs, hello.o )
-Chasing modules from: HelloWorld.hs
-Compiling Main             ( HelloWorld.hs, HelloWorld.o )
-fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__sopen : pmode 0x01b6 ignored
-fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__sopen : pmode 0x01b6 ignored
 Linking ...
-Wine exited with a successful status</pre></code>
+</pre></code>
-And try running it:
 <code><pre>$ wine hello
 Hello, world!
-Wine exited with a successful status</pre></code>
+</pre></code>
-If it all works well then you should be able to compile your haskell programs for windows with wine.
+If it all works well then you should be able to compile your Haskell programs for windows with GHC on Wine.
-== Known problems ==
 If you encounter specific, reproducible issues that are present in the latest release of wine you should file a bug report with the Wine project http://bugs.winehq.org (so long as one doesn't already exist for the issue)
+== Known problems ==
-Open bugs:
+* MSYS does not integrate with MinGW correctly - [[http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15949 See Wine bug 15949]]
-* GHC 6.8.2 appears to suffer from some sort of heap corruption when run under wine, a bug has been filed and it looks like it has been marked as a milestone for 6.8.3
+* removeDirectoryRecursive did not work correctly prior to wine-1.1.4-538-g2e8dec4.  This most notably broke cabal install. '''Use Wine 1.1.5 or newer.'''
+* GHC 6.12.3, Wine 1.2 (from WineBottler) on mac osx leopard: GHC's mingw/bin/gcc.exe exits with a "spawnv failed: errno 2: No such file or directory" error, which breaks cabal install. To work around, replace gcc.exe with a renamed copy of g++.exe, also in that directory ("ghc\bin\mingw> copy g++.exe gcc.exe").
-[http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2091 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2091]
 ===Native DLLs===
 Wine isn't perfect (yet) but does offer a solution for using native dlls, as an alternative to builtin dlls if certain functions are not implemented or are buggy and not yet fixed.  To configure this use winecfg where you can specify settings for the ordering of preferences for loading dlls, Builtin only, Native only, Builtin then Native and Native then Builtin.
+[http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks winetricks] can be useful for installing common native dlls or software
+==Debugging==
+You can enable tracing of various components within Wine to aid in debugging issues with Wine by using [[http://wiki.winehq.org/DebugChannels Wine Debug Channels]].
+==External Links==
+[[http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6691 GHC at the Wine AppDB]]