#9218: Upgrade the version of MinGW shipped with GHC -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: komadori | Owner: gintas Type: task | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.12.1 Component: Build System | Version: 7.8.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: 9014 | Blocking: 9215 Related Tickets: #3390 | Differential Revisions: Phab:D339 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): Status update. Nobody is working on this at the moment. GHC sees very little Windows volunteers in general. The unfinished patch in Phab:D339 does (too) many things: - use [http://mingw-w64.org MinGW-w64] instead of [http://www.mingw.org/ mingw] for 32-bit Windows also. - linker changes needed to go with that, mostly from awson's patch in comment:12 - change the provider of the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Wi... 32bit] and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Wi... 64bit] packages from rubenvb to mingw-builds. By default this results in much [https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339#25977 larger] downloads (2x for 64bit, 5x for 32bit), which means #9014 should be fixed first. - remove all Perl dependencies, which means it's waiting for #9832. - downloads mingw during `./configure` step, instead of via explicit `git clone ...ghc-tarballs.git`. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9218#comment:22 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler