New InstallShield

[Reuben Thomas]

> I didn't know the windows port of GHC used mingwin, that is great news.
> Does that mean it is possible to generate stand alone applications for
> Windows ?

Yes; it always has been!

> Would it be hard to configure GHC to work with the mingwin crosscompiler
> on Linux ? It would be great to have a crosscompiling GHC.

Not a clue. I'd be delighted to hear about this. I suspect the build system
would need ironing out somewhat, but in theory

./configure --target=i386-unknown-mingw32

ought to do something sensible.

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