build system issues

[Simon Marlow]

On 29/05/2009 15:35, Claus Reinke wrote:
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type H <return> for immediate help.
>> ...
>>
>> l.1 <
>> ?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>> ?
>
> Since the docs aren't essential (well, not until the rest works;-), I hit
> 'q<cr>' a few times to get through the latex-choking-on-xml part.
>
> Next stop:
>
> inplace/bin/mkdirhier driver/ghci/dist/build/
> c:/ghc/ghc-6.8.3/bin/ghc.exe -optc-O -optc-g -optc-O2 -O -H64m -i
> -idriver/ghci/. -idriver/ghci/dist/build
> -idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen -Idriver/ghci/dist/build
> -Idriver/ghci/dist/build/autogen -c driver/ghci/ghci.c -o
> driver/ghci/dist/build/ghci.o
> windres --preprocessor="c:/mingw/bin/gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED" -o
> driver/ghci/ghci.res -i driver/ghci/ghci.rc -O coff
> c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: can't open icon file `ghci.ico': No such file
> or directory
> make[1]: *** [driver/ghci/ghci.res] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2

I don't see that error.  What windres is that?  Did you try the one that 
comes with GHC?

Cheers,
	Simon