GHC 7.8.4 for Windows 32bit

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at me.com
Wed Mar 11 10:45:10 UTC 2015


Any progress yet on win32 builds?

Regards,
    Malcolm

On 3 Mar 2015, at 14:05, Austin Seipp wrote:

> Sorry about that; at the time I was having trouble with my build bots
> and I've continuously had trouble remoting into the Win32 machines I
> have... The 64bit build bots worked fine, but the 32 ones consistently
> had flaky internet connectivity, to the point I couldn't bootstrap GHC
> itself. I tried yesterday again, and seem to have fallen pray to
> something else (which makes it so I cannot RDP in at all right now, it
> seems).
> 
> I've actually assembled a new PC here (that I have not yet installed
> Windows on) however, so hopefully I can shortly get binaries up.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> GHC 7.8.4 was released a little while ago, but there still isn't a
>> Windows 32bit version available. With my "MinGHC maintainer" hat on
>> we're getting quite a lot of requests for a 32bit 7.8.4 version. With
>> my "using Haskell commercially" hat on the lack of a 32bit build is
>> causing delays to infrastructure upgrades. Any timeline for a 32bit
>> Windows build? Anything you're stuck on?
>> 
>> Going forward, it seems the 32bit Windows version remains popular, so
>> if all releases and release candidates came with such a version it
>> would be great. I note there wasn't (and still might not be) a 7.10
>> RC, and as a result I've only tested my packages on Linux.
>> 
>> Thanks, Neil
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/



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