#16144: Provide integer-simple builds on Windows. -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: pjljvdlaar | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.7 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: Other | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by pjljvdlaar): See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/140061/when-to-use-dynamic- vs-static-libraries if you are using LGPL licensed code and you link statically against a LGPL library (and thus create one big binary), your code automatically becomes Open Sourced (free as in freedom) LGPL code. Hence, since GHC on windows statically links its libraries with my source code: all my source code is LGPL code when I want to support the windows platform. For most organizations, a LGPL license is NOT acceptable. So maybe the title should have been ensuring acceptable license of software developed with GHC on all platforms. And indeed, for now releasing an integer-simple ghc version does the trick, but I think GHC should address the general problem to become acceptable/ increase usage on the windows platform! -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16144#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler