On 07/16/2014 12:55 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > I feel sorry for Simon always repeatedly stuck with an unbuildable tree, > and an idea crossed my mind: Can we build¹ GHC under Wine? If so, is it > likely to catch the kind of problems that Simon is getting? If so, maybe > it runs fast enough to be also tested by travis on every commit? > > (This mail is to find out if people have tried it before. If not, I’ll > give it a quick shot.) > > Greetings, > Joachim > > ¹ we surely can use it: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC_under_Wine > >
Perhaps this is a bit off-tangent but few months ago there were some commits landing to the nix package manager which allow you to run tests in a Windows VM. It was created to run tests for things like cross-compiled packages but it probably could be adapted. If you don't mind actually installing Windows (in a VM) and have nix already/plan on using it then that might be a more preferable workflow: create a nix expression that builds a validates GHC in the VM and spits out the result. It's just something I thought I should mention in case anyone was interested. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
