"David Bakin"
By the way, I'd like to try to port nhc98 to Microsoft VC++.NET - just to provide a more convenient environment. I am just getting started with nhc (as you see) and have no idea how big a project this would be, though I can imagine some of the common areas of difficulty (e.g., annoying things like the file separators below). Has anyone tried this?
I don't think anyone has tried it before. Aside from the basic platform differences you can already guess: * Add .exe to executable filenames * Use \ as a directory separator instead of / * PATH uses ; instead of : the main obstacles will be: * The Makefiles assume some GNU extensions * The Top-level drivers are shell-scripts On the latter point, nhc98 (and hmake) have shell-script drivers to interpret arguments and call the various stages (pre-processor, Haskell compiler, C compiler, assembler, linker, etc.). Since native windows doesn't have the Bourne shell, you either need to haul in Cygwin's 'bash' (and associated tools like sed, cut, etc) just for that job, or re-code the scripts (perhaps in Haskell?). Regards, Malcolm