GHC 7.8.4 for Windows 32bit

Edward Z. Yang ezyang at mit.edu
Fri Mar 13 22:04:38 UTC 2015


In a similar vein, are instructions for how to build Windows release
builds online anywhere?

Edward

Excerpts from Malcolm Wallace's message of 2015-03-11 03:45:10 -0700:
> 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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