Re: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

I don't think there is any formal list of duties, and there's not much precedent either. Monitoring mailing lists, glancing at bugs from time to time, pinging involved people once in a while, following up on tasks and ideas and generally keeping things moving. It's all best effort though. Anything is better than nothing. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Darren Grant wrote:

Hi All,

Tamar, certainly add me to the Windows Task Force page. Thank you!

Gintautas, what are the duties of a coordinator for the task force? I can volunteer contingent on qualifications and balancing obligations with my day job.

Cheers, Darren

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Tamar Christina wrote:

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Hi Roman & Simon,

I agree it makes sense to add it there, however I think https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WindowsGhc that link should be used instead of the WindowsTaskForce link directly.

@Darren & Martin, would you also like to be added to the page?

Regards, Tamar

*From:* Roman Kuznetsov *Sent:* ‎Tuesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎17‎, ‎2015 ‎14‎:‎45 *To:* Gintautas Miliauskas *Cc:* Tamar Christina , Simon Peyton Jones , Darren Grant , Mikolaj Konarski , ghc-devs@haskell.org, David Macek , kyra , Martin Foster

Hi,

That would definitely make sense to add more information for Windows in "Platform-specific build notes". I will try taking care of it the coming week.

Roman

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Gintautas Miliauskas < gintautas@miliauskas.lt> wrote:

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Hi,

would someone be willing to be a coordinator for the team? Feel free to just edit the wiki. I am completely swamped by my new job and my move to London at the moment, and the situation is unlikely to change soon. Sorry :(

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Tamar Christina wrote:

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Hi Simon,

We do have a page on Trac with the members: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WindowsTaskForce

We could add the extra information there.

Regards, Tamar ------------------------------ From: Simon Peyton Jones Sent: ‎17/‎02/‎2015 10:18 To: Darren Grant ; Mikolaj Konarski Cc: Phyx ; Roman Kuznetsov ; ghc-devs@haskell.org; David Macek ; kyrab ; Gintautas Miliauskas ; Martin Foster Subject: RE: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

One really helpful thing would be to

· make a wiki home page for the Windows Task Force

· list who is on it

· list the main tasks “in flight” and what their status is

· any other plans

Anything to broaden visibility of the WTF, and encourage others to join in. Communication is all in an open-source context!

Thanks for working on Windows… it’s a very popular platform, and needs your love!

Simon

*From:* Darren Grant [mailto:dedgrant@gmail.com] *Sent:* 17 February 2015 05:03 *To:* Mikolaj Konarski *Cc:* Phyx; Roman Kuznetsov; ghc-devs@haskell.org; Simon Peyton Jones; David Macek; kyrab; Gintautas Miliauskas; Martin Foster *Subject:* Re: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

To expand on that (let's see if I can do this without accidentally sending again, oops!):

Roman, I will get in touch with you on a separate email thread to see if we can find an optimal way to coordinate, something that satisfies our schedules and needs. Others please feel free to bug me any time by email ( dedgrant@gmail.com) or on freenode #ghc as dedgrant, PST hours.

In the meantime I'll be auditing some of the related backlogged tickets on trac. If there's something I can do to help further the goal of a Windows Task Force page, please let me know.

Pleased to meet everyone!

Cheers,

Darren

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Darren Grant wrote:

Thank you kindly for the great introduction. I hope I can be helpful here.

On Feb 16, 2015 7:47 AM, "Mikolaj Konarski" wrote:

Resending, since Roman's and Kyril's email addresses were mangled/missing.

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Darren

Excellent! We have a Windows Task Force, consisting roughly of the folk in cc. So they would be the first group to ask.

(I think it would be very helpful to have a Windows Task Force home

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: page, so

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that it’s easier to find the group.)

thanks for helping with Windows.

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Darren Grant Sent: 15 February 2015 07:36 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

Hi all,

I notice there are a series of related long-standing issues subject to particular cygwin64 quirks, and I'd like to offer time to help resolve these if possible

At this point I've had some exposure to the GHC build process (7.8.3), and have poked around the GHC linker to gain some low level insight.

Would anyone be available to fill me in on the current state of affairs with mingw64 GHCi linking? For instance, is there ongoing work, or perhaps a preferred direction but no available developer bandwidth to proceed?

Thank you.

Cheers,

Darren

-- Gintautas Miliauskas

-- Sincerely yours, Roman Kuznetsov

-- Gintautas Miliauskas