Re: Release building for Windows

Hi, On 4 August 2014 14:52, Sven Panne wrote:

Do you have an URL for this FAQ? I can't find it, and I can't remember what's wrong with --enable-split-objs. :-( What is the impact for people using large libraries (like OpenGL/OpenGLRaw/...) where you often use only a small part? Will you get a huge executable then? IIRC that's at least the case for Linux.

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GHC-7.8-FAQ One of the problems is that split-objs is extremely slow, especially on Windows. I had to disable split-objs for OpenGL-related libraries when building the HP installer in the past because of this. Randy also said that libraries built with split-objs don't work well in ghci on Windows x64.