Documentation, /docs/building/Win32.txt

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:26:06PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> These new instructions don't describe building by cygwin, but cygwin
> is pretty awful so I'd say thats a good thing. They do include MSYS
> instruction which is far better, and results in a perfectly working
> binary. They also describe building using Visual Studio, not from the
> command line but from the project files.

In view of the problems with using MinGW-built DLLs with a VS-built
interpreter, I suspect we'll have to support building the libraries
using a VS-built runhugs and ffihugs, but driven by the MSYS shell.
That will need changes to Cabal.

Does ffihugs (built with VS) work (i.e. produce something that loads
and runs with hugs and winhugs)?