Re: [Haskell-cafe] Windows emulator for testing purposes

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

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I wonder if Wine would be good enough for testing.

If memory serves me correctly, I have heard about people installing the Windows version of GHC and using it under Wine for testing purposes...

-- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

It does work, just make sure you're using a sufficiently new version of Wine, git or a development version from http://winehq.org/download Older versions had a bug which broke cabal install, but I submitted a patch for that. What doesn't work is the installer for cygwin if you require that, otherwise msys-git works fine for providing a bash to run configure scripts, so long as you install mingw and update your path, things will work pretty much the same as Windows. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC_under_WINE -Jeff