From 40228ff098d30281c307a7979bc714a8efed8e40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sof Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:49:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 1998-02-04 20:49:58 by sof] Updated cygwin32 details --- distrib/INSTALL | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/distrib/INSTALL b/distrib/INSTALL index 53b9449..aa64209 100644 --- a/distrib/INSTALL +++ b/distrib/INSTALL @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the details of where the different pieces of the bundle are heading when -- possibly helpful). For more information, please consult the installation guide in -{html,dvi,info}/ghc-2.02/installing{.dvi,.info,_toc.html}. +{html,dvi,info}/ghc-2.10/installing{.dvi,.info,_toc.html}. Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup (as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course), @@ -43,30 +43,32 @@ up the Win32 environment into something more UNIX-like (which this initial port of ghc relies on being the case). The cygwin32 tools are available from - ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b17.1/ + ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (Cygnus Solutions; Mt. View, CA.) ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/gnu/cygnus/gnu-win32/ (Sunsite Northern Europe; Imperial College, London) ftp://ftp.crl.go.jp/pub/GNU/cygnus/gnu-win32/ (CRL, Ministry of Posts and Telecom., Japan) -GHC was built with beta17 - you *might* get away with beta16 if you've already got it -installed...not tested this though. +GHC was built with beta18 of the cygwin32 tools and depends on +it to work. The GHC tools are also quite picky about Perl, the commonly-used Hip/ActiveWare Win32 port of perl5 just ain't Cool Enough (main reason: GHC scripts assume they are talking to an underlying UNIX command -shell). A port of perl5.003 done on top of cygwin32-b17 is just -the ticket though, it is available from +shell). A basic port of perl5.004 done on top of cygwin32-b18 is +is available from - http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/gnu-win32/ + ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/working/perl5-004pl1.zip -this port is not complete - but the binaries available from there -are sufficiently wonderful. +this port is by no means complete, but is sufficient for our needs. +(more complete perl5 cygwin32 binary bundles are available + elsewhere - search the web if you need it.) Install both cygwin32&perl5 before continuing. -Future releases of GHC for Win32 may very well avoid relying on -cygwin32 to operate, for various reasons.. +NOTE: If you're planning to install ghc on a drive different from +where you're going to compile programs, you need to change the TMPDIR +variable in the Makefile to "." -------Win32 users only---------------------------------------- -- 1.7.10.4