All replies to the list please. John D. Earle wrote:

When I came to the Haskell mailing list I intended to advance a thought which I never got around to and since we are on the topic. I ran into problems building Haskell from source and I reasoned that since the build system has a POSIX flavor it might be better to officially build Haskell on Windows using SUA. The keyword here is "officially". There is a MinGW Linux cross compiler that allows you to compile a program on Linux that will run on Windows.

A problem with using a cross compiler is you won't get to run the test suite.

The windows API reimplementation Wine is not godd for must things but should be more than adequate to run test suites. For libsndfile I release pre-compiled windows binaries that have been cross compiler from Linux to windows. I run the rather comprehensive libsndfile test suite under Wine and it works very well indeed. Unfortunately Wine currently only supports 32 bit windows. For 64 bit windows I still cross compile from Linux, but I then generate a testsuite tarball that contains all the binaries required to run the test suite. This can then be transferred to the target machine and run in a MinGW or Cygwin shell. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/