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 <lonetiger@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.jakobi@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 <lonetiger@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <ben@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
>>
>>
>