Re: Linker.c broken

True. Worth a try asking them what limits they're willing to lift for a high profile open source project like GHC, I think. -- Mathieu Boespflug Founder at http://tweag.io. On 4 July 2016 at 13:26, Ben Gamari wrote:

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On 4 July 2016 at 12:36, Ben Gamari wrote:

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Simon Marlow writes:

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I will fix it, sorry about this. Unfortunately I can't really add a Windows validate into my workflow because it would mean rebooting my laptop into Windows and not doing anything else for several hours. We need some CI support for Windows - Ben/Austin any thoughts on this?

I agree; this would be great. I have a Windows machine which I'd be happy setup as a builder although I'm afraid it's behind NAT, so integration with Harbormaster may require some tunneling.

Just a suggestion - the easiest and most reliable would probably be to simply use Appveyor for this. They offer a hosted and fully managed CI service very similar to Travis CI - only difference being it runs tests on Windows boxes. And just like Travis CI, it's free!

The advantage of a hosted CI service is that no one except Appveyor need to worry about keeping the build bot highly available.

Only downside is their machines in the free tier can be a bit slow. But that's a problem that can be iterated on as the need arises.

I've noticed that several of the core libraries rely on Appveyor with good results. However, I had assumed that GHC would exceed the maximum build time of their free tier since the build takes a few hours on my Windows box. It seems that Appveyor has a one-hour build duration limit, similar to Travis.

Cheers,

- Ben