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diff --git a/distrib/INSTALL b/distrib/INSTALL index 445a71c61b..260d74dee7 100644 --- a/distrib/INSTALL +++ b/distrib/INSTALL @@ -49,37 +49,3 @@ Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk Enjoy. - - --------Win32 users only---------------------------------------- -NOTE to Win32 users: to enjoy any sort of happiness with the GHC -tools, you will have to install the cygwin toolchain, which dresses -up the Win32 environment into something more UNIX-like (which -this initial port of ghc relies on being the case). The cygwin tools -are available from - - http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ - -GHC was built with beta20.1 of the cygwin tools and depends on it -to work. - -Install cygwin before continuing. Couple of things to remember -doing while installing these two: - - - Create a toplevel /bin directory, and copy bash.exe into it - as sh.exe (we'll need this for running the configure script.) - Add /bin to your PATH. - - Create a toplevel /tmp directory. - -Additionally, ghc requires perl to operate, so included in the -binary distribution is a perl binary, (perl.exe in the toplevel -directory.) Install (as in copy :-) this somewhere along your -PATH too (/bin is a good choice.) - -This is hardly beatiful, but it avoids having to download and install -yet another package, including piles of (useful) perl libraries that the -ghc perl code does not require to operate. Besides which, there's a -dearth of readily useable perl distributions 'out there' that contain -cygwin-compiled binaries, something we really do depend on. - --------Win32 users only---------------------------------------- |