[ANNOUNCE] GHC tarballs for Windows 10 Creators Update

[Niklas Larsson]

Hi!

That's great! I see that the download page at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download still links to the old tarballs for 8.0.2. Will those links be updated? 

// Niklas

> 15 apr. 2017 kl. 04:58 skrev Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>:
> 
> 
> Hello GHC users,
> 
> Over the next few weeks Microsoft will be pushing out an update (the
> so-called Creators Update) to Windows 10 which will break the GCC
> toolchain shipped with all GHC releases prior to the yet-to-be-released
> 8.2.1 (see Trac [1] for details).
> 
> Over the last few weeks our resident Windows expert Tamar and I have
> been working on preparing a set of patched Windows tarballs with
> retrofitted GCC toolchains covering GHC 7.2.1 through 8.0.2. These
> tarballs are now available on downloads.haskell.org. The new tarballs
> are distinguished from the original releases with a `-win10` suffix. For
> instance, the 64-bit 8.0.2 binary distribution can be found at,
> 
>    https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2/ghc-8.0.2-x86_64-unknown-mingw32-win10.tar.xz
> 
> Other than an updated mingw/bin/gcc.exe, these are identical to the
> original releases. More details about the patched toolchain can be found
> in Tamar's ghc-compat repository [2]. As always, let me know if you
> encounter trouble.
> 
> Finally, we should all thank Tamar for his work on this; without his
> effort GHC-on-Windows would be in a sad state indeed. Thanks Tamar!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
> [2] https://github.com/Mistuke/ghc-compat
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