Reuben Thomas rrt1001@cam.ac.uk writes:

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I didn't know the windows port of GHC used mingwin, that is great news. Does that mean it is possible to generate stand alone applications for Windows ?

Yes; it always has been!

ghc-4.04 (or was it 4.03?) added support for compiling via mingw, before that all exes had to depend on cygwin.dll

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Would it be hard to configure GHC to work with the mingwin crosscompiler on Linux ? It would be great to have a crosscompiling GHC.

Not a clue. I'd be delighted to hear about this. I suspect the build system would need ironing out somewhat, but in theory

./configure --target=i386-unknown-mingw32

ought to do something sensible.

Unless someone's bitten the bullet on this one recently, the mk/ setup doesn't deal with cross-compilation at all (nor does the driver); indeed I believe the configure script will even prevent you from trying. --sigbjorn