Release building for Windows

[Austin Seipp]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-08-04 14:59 GMT+02:00 Mikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com>:
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GHC-7.8-FAQ
>
> Hmmm, this isn't very specific, it just says that there are probably
> bugs, but that's true for almost all code. :-) Are there any concrete
> issues with --enable-split-objs?

Sorry for the confusion; I just meant you *should not* enable
split-objs in your cabal configuration - GHC uses it for its
libraries, but in general users don't want it for arbitrary code
(bugs, huge linking time and memory usage, etc).

>> One of the problems is that split-objs is extremely slow, especially
>> on Windows. I had to disable split-objs for OpenGL-related libraries
>> when building the HP installer in the past because of this.
>
> I think it's perfectly fine if the the compilation of the library
> itself takes ages if it pays off later: You compile the library once,
> but link against it multiple times. Or do the link times against e.g.
> OpenGL stuff suffer? My point is: Do we make the right trade-off here?
> A quick search brought up e.g.
> https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/issues/169 which
> seems to be a request to split everything.
>
>> Randy also said that libraries built with split-objs don't work well
>> in ghci on Windows x64.
>
> Is there an issue for this?

Yes, there should be a bug filed for this if there isn't one already.
But problems with the GHC build itself are really more of the priority
than arbitrary user facing code. Still, a ticket would be good.

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Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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