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| author | simonpj <unknown> | 2004-12-21 12:35:10 +0000 |
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| committer | simonpj <unknown> | 2004-12-21 12:35:10 +0000 |
| commit | 970fca0f5f45a614de19df092e4eab0d9117c3fa (patch) | |
| tree | e66f00965ada0eb5e12809676312b4c2fc3c380b /docs | |
| parent | 79a8b87c0bd61d56b4cf45bd584c9174aab48e61 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-970fca0f5f45a614de19df092e4eab0d9117c3fa.tar.gz | |
[project @ 2004-12-21 12:35:10 by simonpj]
An old commit about paths on windows
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/building/building.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/building/building.xml b/docs/building/building.xml index 3affc087ab..2a61ab8c0e 100644 --- a/docs/building/building.xml +++ b/docs/building/building.xml @@ -4424,7 +4424,11 @@ Run both executables (in the order given above) to install them. I put them in <listitem><para> Set the following environment variables <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para><literal>PATH</literal>: add <literal>c:/msys/1.0/bin</literal> to your path. (Of course, the version number may differ.) + <listitem><para><literal>PATH</literal>: add <literal>c:/msys/1.0/bin</literal> and + <literal>c:/msys/1.0/local/bin</literal> + to your path. (Of course, the version number may differ.) + MSYS mounts the former as both <literal>/bin</literal> and + <literal>/usr/bin</literal> and the latter as <literal>/usr/local/bin</literal>. </para></listitem> <listitem><para><literal>HOME</literal>: set to your home directory (e.g. <literal>c:/userid</literal>). @@ -4695,7 +4699,7 @@ Make sure the installation directory is in your </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Install Alex. This can be done by building from the + <para>Install an executable Alex. This can be done by building from the source distribution in the same way as Happy. Sources are available from <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/alex">http://www.haskell.org/alex</ulink>.</para> @@ -4708,7 +4712,13 @@ Just pick up a mingw bundle at <ulink url="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</ulink>. We install it in <filename>c:/mingw</filename>. </para> -<para>Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> add any of the <emphasis>mingw</emphasis> binaries to your path. + +<para><emphasis>On MSYS</emphasis>, add <literal>c:/mingw/bin</literal> to your PATH. MSYS does not provide <command>gcc</command>, +<command>ld</command>, <command>ar</command>, and so on, because it just uses the MinGW ones. So you need them +in your path. +</para> + +<para><emphasis>On Cygwin, do not</emphasis> add any of the <emphasis>mingw</emphasis> binaries to your path. They are only going to get used by explicit access (via the --with-gcc flag you give to <command>configure</command> later). If you do add them to your path you are likely to get into a mess because their names overlap with Cygwin binaries. |