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 <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
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.