On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:41 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
Hi, I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start any kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the runtime so that it would be possible to distribute native executables compiled with GHC without having to deal with the additional issues raised by the current inclusion of this LGPL component in the runtime. (Afaik everything else in ghc is under a BSD3 license.)
It's less of an issue on Linux where libgmp is dynamically linked but when thinking about using Haskell ghc for creating Windows apps it is for me a real problem,
Sounds to me like the simlest solution for you would be if GHC could use a dynamically linked gmp.dll on Windows. That also sounds like much less work that replacing gmp completely. Has anyone tried this? Duncan