Thanks for the pointer. I get failures (below) when I try to "make install". Does anyone have a suggestion? - Conal<br>
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bash-3.2$ ./configure<br>
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin<br>
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin<br>
checking target system type... i686-pc-cygwin<br>
Which we'll further canonicalise into: i386-unknown-cygwin32<br>
checking for perl... /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl<br>
checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes<br>
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c<br>
checking whether ln -s works... yes<br>
checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed<br>
checking for gcc... gcc<br>
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe<br>
checking whether the C compiler works... yes<br>
checking whether we are cross compiling... no<br>
checking for suffix of executables... .exe<br>
checking for suffix of object files... o<br>
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes<br>
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes<br>
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed<br>
checking version of gcc... 3.4.4<br>
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E<br>
configure: creating ./config.status<br>
config.status: creating Makefile<br>
****************************************************<br>
Configuration done, ready to either 'make install'<br>
or 'make in-place'.<br>
(see README and INSTALL files for more info.)<br>
****************************************************<br>
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bash-3.2$ make in-place<br>
make config-pkgs bindir=`pwd`/bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32 libdir=`pwd`/lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32 datadir=`pwd`/share<br>
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.7.20070404'<br>
Configuring ghc, version 6.7.20070404.20070404, on i386-unknown-cygwin32 ...<br>
Creating a configured version of ghcprof ..<br>
/bin/sh: line 5: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 6: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 7: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 8: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 9: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 10: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 11: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 12: bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof: No such file or directory<br>
chmod: cannot access `bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghcprof': No such file or directory<br>
Done.<br>
Creating a configured version of ghc-asm ..<br>
/bin/sh: line 5: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 6: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 7: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 8: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 9: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 10: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 11: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 12: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm: No such file or directory<br>
chmod: cannot access `lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-asm': No such file or directory<br>
Done.<br>
Creating a configured version of ghc-split ..<br>
/bin/sh: line 5: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 6: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 7: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 8: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 9: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 10: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 11: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
/bin/sh: line 12: lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split: No such file or directory<br>
chmod: cannot access `lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/ghc-split': No such file or directory<br>
Done.<br>
Creating a configured version of package.conf ..<br>
Can't open lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/package.conf: No such file or directory.<br>
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.7.20070404'<br>
Finished configuring..to use, add /cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.7.20070404/bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32 to your PATH.<br>
bash-3.2$ <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Peyton-Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Following the "snapshot distribution" link on GHC's download
page yields this</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.7.20070404-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.bz2" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.7.20070404-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.bz2</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">That seems to be a tar bundle for Windows; it's not an msi but if
you unpack it you should be able to run it just fine.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Simon</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Conal
Elliott<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 April 2007 20:03<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> recent Windows installer for ghc head?</span></p>
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<p>I'd like to try out the new & improved combination of
type classes and GADTs, which I understand is only in head. Is there a
recent working windows installer for head?<br>
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Thanks, - Conal</p>
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