"Simon Marlow"
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Sadly, the difficulty of using GHC/mingw32 as a bootstrapping compiler seems to be increasing the more we delve into it. Perhaps it would be safest for us simply to recommend GHC/cygwin instead, and disallow the GHC/mingw32 route.
I don't know whether Sigbjorn plans to continue supporting this route - Sigbjorn?
Is there really a demand for it? Judging by the download logs for the cygwin snapshot I put out last week, I remain unconvinced that it's worth the effort (i.e., 'wasting' a day+ to fix up & package a release that's been downloaded by _one_ single soul, doesn't strike me as a worthwhile way to be spending my free time.) Is there a description of what's wrong with the released Windows version of GHC wrt. compiling up nhc98? --sigbjorn