Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues

[Gintautas Miliauskas]

Hi,

would someone be willing to be a coordinator for the team? Feel free to
just edit the wiki. I am completely swamped by my new job and my move to
London at the moment, and the situation is unlikely to change soon. Sorry :(

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Tamar Christina <lonetiger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> We do have a page on Trac with the members:
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WindowsTaskForce
>
> We could add the extra information there.
>
> Regards,
> Tamar
> ------------------------------
> From: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> Sent: ‎17/‎02/‎2015 10:18
> To: Darren Grant <dedgrant at gmail.com>; Mikolaj Konarski
> <mikolaj at well-typed.com>
> Cc: Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com>; Roman Kuznetsov <kuznero at gmail.com>;
> ghc-devs at haskell.org; David Macek <david.macek.0 at gmail.com>; kyrab
> <kyrab at mail.ru>; Gintautas Miliauskas <gintautas at miliauskas.lt>; Martin
> Foster <martin.e.foster at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues
>
>  One really helpful thing would be to
>
> ·         make a wiki home page for the Windows Task Force
>
> ·         list who is on it
>
> ·         list the main tasks “in flight” and what their status is
>
> ·         any other plans
>
> Anything to broaden visibility of the WTF, and encourage others to join
> in.  Communication is all in an open-source context!
>
>
>
> Thanks for working on Windows… it’s a very popular platform, and needs
> your love!
>
>
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> *From:* Darren Grant [mailto:dedgrant at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 17 February 2015 05:03
> *To:* Mikolaj Konarski
> *Cc:* Phyx; Roman Kuznetsov; ghc-devs at haskell.org; Simon Peyton Jones;
> David Macek; kyrab; Gintautas Miliauskas; Martin Foster
> *Subject:* Re: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues
>
>
>
> To expand on that (let's see if I can do this without accidentally sending
> again, oops!):
>
> Roman, I will get in touch with you on a separate email thread to see if
> we can find an optimal way to coordinate, something that satisfies our
> schedules and needs. Others please feel free to bug me any time by email (
> dedgrant at gmail.com) or on freenode #ghc as dedgrant, PST hours.
>
> In the meantime I'll be auditing some of the related backlogged tickets on
> trac. If there's something I can do to help further the goal of a Windows
> Task Force page, please let me know.
>
>
> Pleased to meet everyone!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darren
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Darren Grant <dedgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Thank you kindly for the great introduction. I hope I can be helpful
> here.
>
>   On Feb 16, 2015 7:47 AM, "Mikolaj Konarski" <mikolaj at well-typed.com>
> wrote:
>
> Resending, since Roman's and Kyril's email addresses were mangled/missing.
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
> <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Darren
> >
> >
> >
> > Excellent!  We have a Windows Task Force, consisting roughly of the folk
> in
> > cc.  So they would be the first group to ask.
> >
> >
> >
> > (I think it would be very helpful to have a Windows Task Force home
> page, so
> > that it’s easier to find the group.)
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks for helping with Windows.
> >
> >
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Darren
> > Grant
> > Sent: 15 February 2015 07:36
> > To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> > Subject: Resolving Windows 64-bit linker issues
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I notice there are a series of related long-standing issues subject to
> > particular cygwin64 quirks, and I'd like to offer time to help resolve
> these
> > if possible
> >
> > At this point I've had some exposure to the GHC build process (7.8.3),
> and
> > have poked around the GHC linker to gain some low level insight.
> >
> >
> >
> > Would anyone be available to fill me in on the current state of affairs
> with
> > mingw64 GHCi linking? For instance, is there ongoing work, or perhaps a
> > preferred direction but no available developer bandwidth to proceed?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Darren
> >
> >
>
>
>



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Gintautas Miliauskas
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