23 Nov
2012
23 Nov
'12
3:53 a.m.
Personally, I successfully use Wine to build, ship and test for Windows.
There are some pitfalls related to -optl-mwindows and encodings,
but, if you launch your program with $LANG set to proper windows
encoding like cp1251 and the std handles closed with 0>&- 1>&- 2>&-,
it should crash on related errors the same way as on windows.
I am not (yet) aware of any Haskell programs that don't run under Wine.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:05:45 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo
So is it difficult for an open source contributor to test on windows? Hell yes! You have no idea how hard windows is in comparison to say FreeBSD. Even Apple's OS X is easier than windows, because I have friends who can give me SSH access to their machines.