#1502: GHC should integrate better with mingw
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Reporter: eivuokko | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.8
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.6.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: windows | Difficulty: Unknown
Os: Unknown | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown |
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Changes (by igloo):
* milestone: => 6.8
Comment:
Having talked with eivuokko, the problem seems to be that, as ghc's mingw
stuff doesn't have the standard layout, adding things like extra mingw
headers (which you'd normally do by untarring over the top of your mingw
installation) is more work.
I think we agreed that it would be great if the GHC installer could
include the mingw installer, and automatically run it (unless instructed
otherwise by the user; it could also try to detect if mingw is already
installed), installing mingw in the standard place and running it from
there. We'd need some config file to tell GHC where to find the mingw it
should use.
This should make everything less fragile (e.g. I've recently had problems
with Cabal making assumptions that aren't true for an inplace GHC) and
easier to work with.
I'm not sure if we'll be able to make all this work in time for 6.8,
unfortunately, but if we can then it would be great.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1502>
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