Configure: gcc problem under mingw/i386

[Niculae Ionita]

Yes, with these steps and also later with the correction from Kyle Van 
Berendonck ( 
http://www.mail-archive.com/ghc-devs@haskell.org/msg02096.html ) it 
compiles on Windows too.

Thanks, Nicu

Am 23.08.2013 23:18, schrieb Austin Seipp:
> Please update your GHC repository tree, then run:
>
> ./sync-all get
>
> There was a bug I fixed today where 'msys' wasn't correctly detected 
> as Windows, so it skipped the ghc-tarballs repository.
>
> Then make sure you do './sync-all pull' to update everything else 
> (there were other changes that require syncing.)
>
> Hopefully that helps.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Niculae Ionita <nicu at ionita.at 
> <mailto:nicu at ionita.at>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm new to GHC Dev and I'm trying to build GHC 7.7 (the repo is
>     about 9 days old) on a Windows machine with mingw32. I followed
>     the very helpful article for newcomers to GHC dev (
>     http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers# ) and up to
>     configure it was easy.
>
>     Now I get a problem with configure, the last few output lines are:
>
>     GHC build  : i386-unknown-mingw32
>     GHC host   : i386-unknown-mingw32
>     GHC target : i386-unknown-mingw32
>     configure: Building in-tree ghc-pwd
>     checking for path to top of build tree... j:/ghc
>     checking for gcc... j:/ghc/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe
>     checking whether the C compiler works... no
>     configure: error: in `/j/ghc':
>     configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>     See `config.log' for more details
>
>     From config.log it's clear that j:/ghc/inplace/mingw/bin/gcc.exe
>     is missing (actually already the bin is missing). My gcc is in
>     /mingw/bin, which is in PATH, but even if I try with the option
>
>     --with-gcc=/mingw/bin/gcc
>
>     I get the same error.
>
>     So I was looking in the configure script and found out that, for
>     mingw32 and i386, gcc must be under $hardtop/inplace/mingw/bin/,
>     and if not, there are commands to unpack all tools from tar files
>     like ghc-tarballs/mingw/binutils*.tar.lzma and a few others.
>
>     The point is, I don't have the subdirectory ghc-tarballs under my
>     ghc directory.
>
>     Now, my questions:
>
>     1. Are there any reasons to not use the building tools coming from
>     the mingw installation, and use the dedicated ones?
>
>     2. Where could I find those tarballs? Did I miss something when
>     updated the repositories?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Nicu
>
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> -- 
> Regards,
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