[GHC] #10955: GHC on windows does not resolve DLL dependencies

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#10955: GHC on windows does not resolve DLL dependencies
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        Reporter:  Phyx-             |                Owner:  Phyx-
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.0.1
       Component:  Runtime System    |              Version:  7.10.2
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Operating System:  Windows           |         Architecture:
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 Type of failure:  Runtime crash     |            Test Case:
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Comment (by thoughtpolice):

 I proposed quite a while back to actually drop XP support:
 https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-November/007199.html

 Personally, I say we go for it. Of course, some people might not like
 this, but I think dropping XP for 8.0 is pretty reasonable. Even Windows
 Server 2k3 is EOL now, and we won't be releasing for a few months still.
 And it's not like 7.10 or whatever will stop existing.

 At the very least, if you can cook up a patch and people rally against it,
 we can apply it to HEAD and just say 8.2 will definitively remove it and
 that's that. But I imagine it would be fine for 8.0 as well.

 In short, you have my permission to use the launch codes, and nuke it from
 orbit.

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