Hi Graham. In brief...
Graham Klyne
It's not GHC that's the main problem, its the dependency on makefiles. But if I can use hscpp, that's less of a problem.
No, it's the dependency on GHC's ability to CPP. I don't know if you can use hscpp, I haven't tried.
Summary: I think the next step is this: if you can point me at the non-portable modules in Cabal, I can try and figure out what it takes to run them under Windows, and feed the details back to you.
AFAIK, there aren't any non-portable modules, after you've cpp'd them. If there are, I'd like to know about it. Just look at the makefile calls to ghc, I think it's pretty straightforward: mkdir -p dist/tmp ghc --make -Wall -odir dist/tmp -hidir dist/tmp Setup -o setup Then you can use ./setup configure, build, install, etc.
Also, maybe, if you can point me to the code that invokes make, I'll see if I can figure a way to add a revectoring point there.
None of the Distribution.Simple invokes make. peace, isaac