I’ve started a build, note that you will also need a PR to Hadrian to update WINVER.
From: Simon Jakobi Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 09:49 To: Phyx Cc: Ben Gamari; ghc-devs@haskell.org Devs Subject: Re: End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6? Thanks for the reminder, Tamar! I have just created https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4679. I would be very grateful if you could test it on 32bit Windows. Cheers, Simon 2018-05-05 12:07 GMT+02:00 Phyx <loneti...@gmail.com>: > Hi Simon, > > Whatever happened to this? The wiki was updated but I don't see a commit > actually removing vista support. > > Did you end up not doing this anymore? > > Thanks, > Tamar > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Simon Jakobi <simon.jak...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> >> Thanks everyone! >> >> I have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms/Windows >> accordingly. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> 2018-03-05 18:29 GMT+01:00 Phyx <loneti...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes: >>>> >>>> > Hi! >>>> > >>>> > Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017 >>>> > >>>> > <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support> >>>> > i assume that there’s no intention to keep supporting it in GHC-8.6!? >>>> > >>>> > I’m asking because I intend to use a function >>>> > >>>> > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd405488.aspx> >>>> > that requires Windows 7 or newer for #13362 >>>> > <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13362>. >>>> > >>>> Given that it's EOL'd, dropping Vista sounds reasonable to me. >>>> >>>> Tamar, any objection? >>> >>> >>> No objections, however do make sure to test both 32 and 64 bit builds of >>> ghc when you use the API, it's new enough and rare enough that it may not be >>> implemented in both mingw-64 tool chains (we've had similar issues before). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tamar >>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> - Ben >> >> >
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