Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| > Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of | > the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse. | | But it shouldn't. Really it shouldn't. Even though Windows is not my | preferred platform, it is by no means different enough to warrant such | additional complexity. Plus, GHC is developed at Microsoft, and the | currently most featureful Haskell IDE is on Windows...
We build GHC on Windows every day. I use MSYS with no trouble.
Are there any reasons to use mingw+msys instead of mingw+cygwin? Last time I needed a quick build of gtk2hs (summer of this year?), I run in so many problems with msys (too old versions of tools in it) that I rather patched gtk2hs build system to make it work with cygwin. Well this may not be an issue any more since I see a newer version of msys is available from September. Peter.