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# Setting up a Windows system for building GHC
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Installing the following will get you a working build environment with MSYS. The instructions are current for GHC 7.2. An alternatively method for windows is to build GHC, [using Cygwin](building/windows/cygwin)). Using MSYS is the preferred approach though.
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Installing the following will get you a working build environment with MSYS. The instructions are current for GHC 7.2.
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1. If you don't know what MinGW, MSYS and Cygwin are, then please read some background info on the [here](building/platforms/windows).
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Other documentation for Windows includes:
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- [Using Cygwin](building/windows/cygwin) to build GHC. Using MSYS is the preferred approach though.
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- [MinGW/MSYS/Cgwin](building/platforms/windows) information for people new to using UNIX tools on Windows.
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- [Using SSH](building/windows/ssh) on Windows.
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## Setting up Windows
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1. We don't recommend installing anything into a directory path that contains spaces.
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