wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:
Whooo, boy, I sure don't fancy explaining Msys/MinGW or Cygwin to a non-technical person and giving sufficiently detailed installation/usage instructions.
I still dislike the idea of needing to install MSYS, MinGW, Cygwin or similar tools to get anything remotely interesting from Hackage to build on Windows. Actually, I've been looking into the feasibility of building precompiled Windows binaries, Gtk2hs style, for all the "interesting" Haskell packages that are depended on my a lot of stuff. Currently I'm still struggling with convincing NSIS to do my diabolical bidding. (Jesus, I thought NSIS was supposed to make the job *easier*, not harder!) I haven't even got around to trying to make the awkward packages build so I can make installers.