Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Building/Windows/Cygwin

Timestamp:

11/29/11 12:33:08 (18 months ago)

Author:

igloo

Comment:

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Building/Windows/Cygwin

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 1. Install [http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin]
 
-2. You must install enough Cygwin ''packages'' to support building GHC.  If you miss out any of these, strange things will happen to you.   There are two ways to do this:
- * The direct, but laborious way is to select all of the following packages in the installation dialogue:
-   {{{cvs}}}, 
+2. You must install enough Cygwin ''packages'' to support building GHC. This means selecting at least the following packages in the installation dialogue:
+   {{{git}}}, 
    {{{openssh}}},
    {{{autoconf}}},
    {{{binutils}}},
    {{{gcc}}},
-   {{{flex}}},
    {{{make}}}.
    To see these packages, click on the "View" button in the "Select Packages" stage of Cygwin's installation dialogue, until the view says "Full". 
- * The clever way is to point the Cygwin installer at the
-   {{{ghc-depends}}} package, which is kept at [http://haskell.org/ghc/cygwin]. When the Cygwin installer asks you to "Choose a Download Site", choose one of the offered mirror sites; and then type "http://haskell.org/ghc/cygwin" into the "User URL" box and click "Add"; now two sites are selected. (The Cygwin installer remembers this for next time.) Click "Next". In the "Select Packages" dialogue box that follows, click the "+" sign by "Devel", scroll down to the end of the "Devel" packages, and choose {{{ghc-depends}}}.
 
 3. Now set the following user environment variables: