Re: Building GHC under Wine?

On 18/07/2014 08:59, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 18.07.2014, 08:38 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow:

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I might be misremembering, but I believe someone (Ross Paterson?) used to do this a while ago.

I can't think of any good reasons it *shouldn't* work.

Then, next question: Is it likely to find windows building failures, are are the failures usually of the kind that would not occur in a not-quite-a-real-windows environment?

As far as I know, yes it should look like a real Windows environment. However, now that I think about it, I suspect what I'm remembering is that someone used GHC under Wine to develop something else, rather than building GHC itself. Building GHC might be rather more difficult. Cheers, Simon