Andrew Coppin wrote:
I too was going to have a go at this. I had a Windows VM (so I don't ruin my *real* Windows box) and I was going to set up all the junk which is apparently necessary to make C bindings build. And then I was going to build all the libraries I want but can't have, package them up into nice little installers with NSIS, and make the binary installers available for each version of the Haskell Platform.
But, as I say, I utterly failed to make MinGW and MSYS actually work. I never got as far as installing HP at all!
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? Install Debian Testing/Unstable with Wine in a VM and cross compile to Windows. For C libraries that originate on Unix, cross compiling them on from Linux -> Windows is often easier than getting them to compile on Windows. For the Haskell stuff, install the windows version of GHC using Wine (I messed with this a bit and it worked like a charm). Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/