"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

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

Does anyone have experience with ReactOS? Cheers, Greg On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Rahul Kapoor wrote:

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Do you have any recommendations for a free/open source solution that would let me emulate a Windows environment for testing purposes?

Sun's Virtual Box? - http://www.virtualbox.org/

You would still need a Windows license though.

Cheers, Rahul

So, part of the problem is that I am using my own build system (Blueprint) rather than Cabal, which I would like to test someday to make sure it works under windows; problems like screwing up the file paths are exactly the kind of thing that I worry about happening. :-) And part of the reason that I developed and am using my own build system is because I am mixing Fortran and Haskell code, which is something that Cabal does not support in any meaningful use of the word "support" --- i.e., I don't count writing a parallel configuration and build system for the Fortran code and grafting it onto Cabal using a complicated assortment of hooks as being a meaningful sense of this word. :-) Cheers, Greg On Jan 18, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

Hello Gregory

If the packages are FFI-free they "should just work" (ahem, perhaps with some caveats about e.g. file paths - if they have data files included).

If they have FFI dependencies then a Windows emulator is going to have to emulate Unix in turn (either via MinGW or Cygwin). It might be more productive to simply label them as "Untested under Windows" and make a reference to the FFI dependencies.

Best wishes

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