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

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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

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

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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

Hi Darren, I don’t actually know what the status of these issues are. I think one of the tasks we had set out to do was actually checking on these tickets and their progress. Gintautas was doing most of the mingw64 build stuff. I don’t know if the cygwin64 link stuff has been looked at by anyone since I think we’re all mostly using mingw64. I have two issues I’m working on atm, both related to the RTS. But if there’s anything I can do to help then just let me know. Cheers, Tamar From: Darren Grant Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎17‎, ‎2015 ‎06‎:‎02 To: Mikolaj Konarski Cc: Phyx, Roman Kuznetsov, ghc-devs@haskell.org, Simon Peyton Jones, David Macek, kyra, Gintautas Miliauskas, Martin Foster 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. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

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 page, so 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

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.commailto: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 mailto:dedgrant@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you kindly for the great introduction. I hope I can be helpful here. On Feb 16, 2015 7:47 AM, "Mikolaj Konarski" mailto:mikolaj@well-typed.com> wrote: Resending, since Roman's and Kyril's email addresses were mangled/missing. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Simon Peyton Jones mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:

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 page, so that it’s easier to find the group.)

thanks for helping with Windows.

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.orgmailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Darren Grant Sent: 15 February 2015 07:36 To: ghc-devs@haskell.orgmailto: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