source-only release candidate

[David Bakin]

Oh boy, thanks, I"ll try that this evening -- Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "'Ross Paterson'" <ross at soi.city.ac.uk>
To: "David Bakin" <d.bakin at comcast.net>
Cc: "Mark P Jones" <mpj at cse.ogi.edu>; <hugs-users at haskell.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: source-only release candidate


> Regarding building on Windows: what is missing are the libraries, which
> need to be converted from the fptools ones useing a shell script, after
> running configure.  I expect that this is possible, and possibly easy,
> under Cygwin, but I don't know how to do it.  As a partial stopgap,
> I've placed a conversion of most of the libraries (but not including
> the Win32 libraries) at
> 
> http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/downloads/Sep2003/libs.tar.gz
> 
> That contains the directories libraries and oldlib, which need to be in
> your {Hugs} directory.
> 
> To use the FFI, you'll need to compile Hugs.Storable, as follows:
>  
>         ffihugs +G -P +L../libraries/Hugs/Storable_aux.c Hugs.Storable