Re: [GHC] #14537: Do not link to msvcrt.dll

#14537: Do not link to msvcrt.dll -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: johndoe | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.1 (Linking) | Resolution: invalid | 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 Phyx-): Sorry for the delay, haven't had much time to spend on GHC. As you know we depend on GCC which gets it's crt definitions from the mingw-w64 project. As far as I am aware of, they were supposed to support XP until v5 of the crt release https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/35465862/ but this function was added in 2010: {{{ commit f532681f435090c3a0812bf02969821b211d5ca1 Author: Jonathan Yong <10walls@gmail.com> Date: Mon Aug 2 06:59:06 2010 +0000 2010-07-26 Jonathan Yong * lib32/msvcrt.def: Added secure and locale type symbols from Win7. * lib64/msvcrt.def: Likewise. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.code.sf.net/p/mingw-w64/code/trunk@3079 4407c894-4637-0410-b4f5-ada5f102cad1 }}} Which is why it's using it. But while that means I could in theory have a workaround for XP for this, it won't do you much good. Starting with 8.6 we're going to use system APIs only available in Windows Vista SP1 and higher (which is our minimum supported version, but we'll likely be moving this to Windows 7 too). As @refold said we don't support XP anymore, and I don't think it's feasible for us to, it requires too many workarounds in the runtime, and in some cases just not having a feature. So while I could solve this particular issue, I'm sure it still won't be useable. Sorry. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14537#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler