GHCi and Windows 98

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Steven,

If you are just getting started, and GHC is giving you no luck, try
Hugs (in particular WinHugs) which does work on Win98.

http://www.haskell.org/hugs/

Thanks

Neil

On 12/7/06, "Steven Tinsley" <steven-tinsley at rochfest.co.uk> wrote:
> Good day to you.  I installed GHC 6.6 on a Windows 98 SE system recently
> having decided to try to learn this language.  Unfortunetley, GHCi causes an
> "This program has performed an illegal operation...." error at startup and
> is shut down.  This happens just after "Loading base
> package....linking....done" is shown.  Windows produces this error message:
>
> [code]
> GHC caused an invalid page fault in
> module GHC.EXE at 0167:00c82e26.
> Registers:
> EAX=00000078 CS=0167 EIP=00c82e26 EFLGS=00010297
> EBX=00d963c8 SS=016f ESP=010cdd50 EBP=01c43f3c
> ECX=00000007 DS=016f ESI=01be57e8 FS=1617
> EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=01be57f4 GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> 66 83 3c 50 00 74 19 ff 45 00 83 ef 08 b8 18 2e
> Stack dump:
> 00000078 00000200 00000001 00000000 00d0fe5c 00000002 00cddbb6 00000000
> 00000000 00000001 00c34b9c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00408442 00000000
> [/code]
>
> Just thought you'd like to know.  Thanks.
>
> Steven.
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