X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EA04671.6030705@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:04:01 +0200 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: building a cygwin aware GHC References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 10/20/2011 1:01 AM, Nathan Thern wrote: > I am attempting (for probably the tenth time) to compile the GHC > haskell compiler. > > The problem with GHC is that the windows version is compiled with > MinGW, and cygwin is considered to be nothing other than a MinGW > alternative. IOW, the source code is riddled with assumptions that if > you are building GHC with cygwin then what you want in the end is a > cygwin-unaware windows-compliant executable. > > I have attempted in the past to modify configure(.ac) to trick the > build system into thinking that the target OS is an unknown unix > platform, but IIRC that failed during the compilation of some code > inside a #ifdef WIN32 block. > > This time I'm thinking I will go through the source and expunge all > code that's conditional for MinGW, CYGWIN32, WIN32_*, etc. After an > autoreconf the autobuild system's innate awareness of cygwin should > allow me to build as if the target is some generic unix-like system. > > Before I get started, I'm wondering if anyone has tried anything like > this before and has any tips. Are there any win32 related CFLAGS that > I want to leave alone or can I expunge them all? > > regards, > NT > no experience on GHC and looking at the source, I am sure you need to cut through the source tree. Look also the aclocal.m4 ont only configure.ac I noticed also wrong/obsolete assumption around the code libraries/base/GHC/ConsoleHandler.hs:-- * Cygwin shells with @CYGWIN=tty@ that you need to evaluate also. Good Luck Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple