[nhc-bugs] Building nhc98 on Windows 2000

[Sigbjorn Finne]

"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> writes:
>
 ...
>
> > Sadly, the difficulty of using GHC/mingw32 as a bootstrapping compiler
> > seems to be increasing the more we delve into it.  Perhaps it would
> > be safest for us simply to recommend GHC/cygwin instead, and disallow
> > the GHC/mingw32 route.
>
> I don't know whether Sigbjorn plans to continue supporting this route -
> Sigbjorn?
>

Is there really a demand for it? Judging by the download logs for the cygwin
snapshot I put out last week, I remain unconvinced that it's worth the
effort
(i.e., 'wasting' a day+ to fix up & package a release that's been downloaded
by _one_ single soul, doesn't strike me as a worthwhile way to be spending
my free time.)

Is there a description of what's wrong with the released Windows version
of GHC wrt. compiling up nhc98?

--sigbjorn