Peter Tanski wrote:
skaller wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:23 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello glasgow-haskell-users,
are you plan to implement 64-bit windows GHC version?
The main thing standing in the way of this is the lack of a 64-bit port of mingw.
Why do you need mingw? What's wrong with MSVC++?
The largest problem is the build system: GHC uses autoconf with custom makefiles.
So autoconf won't work with MSVC++, that is indeed a problem. But this doesn't mean we have to stop using Makefiles and GNU make - the rest of the build system will work fine, provided it's told about the different conventions for names of object files etc. I don't see a compelling enough reason to stop using GNU make. The build system doesn't even need to invoke CL directly, since we can use GHC as a "driver" (isn't this the way we agreed to do it before?). We use autoconf in a pretty limited way (no automake), so I don't think it will be hard to work around, even if we have to just hard-code all the configuration results for Windows. Cheers, Simon