[GHC] #1502: GHC should integrate better with mingw

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#1502: GHC should integrate better with mingw
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 Reporter:  eivuokko         |          Owner:             
     Type:  feature request  |         Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal           |      Milestone:  6.12 branch
Component:  Compiler         |        Version:  6.6.1      
 Severity:  normal           |     Resolution:             
 Keywords:  windows          |     Difficulty:  Unknown    
 Testcase:                   |   Architecture:  Unknown    
       Os:  Windows          |  
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Comment (by claus):

 Instead of including the mingw installer, how about preserving the
 internal directory layout of the bits of mingw that get included?

 That would avoid the need for extra `-B` flags in ghc, cabal, hsc2hs, ..,
 it would make gcc much less prone to picking up the wrong
 executables/libraries/include files from other places, allowing it to work
 as intended (its build-in paths start searching relative to the gcc
 executable, allowing relocation). See this cvs-ghc thread for more
 details:

 ghc head on windows: gcc.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No
 such file or directory

 http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-September/045161.html

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