[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unix emulation

I'd agree with Stephen. I've used MinGW / msys for years and would never consider doing any open source development (especially involving C) without it. In the past, installing it has only taken a few minutes. That still looks to be the case for MinGW but it now appears that msys has been split into a confusing and long list of packages. I think that it needs a standard installer as well (in fact the combined MinGW/msys package needs one standard installer as I think it is rare these days to use one without the other.) Kevin On Aug 23, 8:53 am, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 23 August 2010 06:12, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

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I'm going to be a bit of a heretic here and suggest that you attack this problem from the other end. How you ask?

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Install Debian Testing/Unstable with Wine in a VM and cross compile to Windows.

No - that's a completely azzback solution.

MinGW / MSYS works fine, the problem is solely that the documentation of the install procedure has gone awry, with conflicting and seemingly out of date guides on the mingw.org website.

The best solution would be to sign up to the mingw-user mailing list and ask what the currently preferred method is for installing. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-C...@haskell.orghttp://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe