All replies to the list please. John D. Earle wrote:
> When I came to the Haskell mailing list I intended to advance a thought > which I never got around to and since we are on the topic. I ran into > problems building Haskell from source and I reasoned that since the build > system has a POSIX flavor it might be better to officially build Haskell on > Windows using SUA. The keyword here is "officially". There is a MinGW Linux > cross compiler that allows you to compile a program on Linux that will run > on Windows. > > A problem with using a cross compiler is you won't get to run the test > suite. The windows API reimplementation Wine is not godd for must things but should be more than adequate to run test suites. For libsndfile I release pre-compiled windows binaries that have been cross compiler from Linux to windows. I run the rather comprehensive libsndfile test suite under Wine and it works very well indeed. Unfortunately Wine currently only supports 32 bit windows. For 64 bit windows I still cross compile from Linux, but I then generate a testsuite tarball that contains all the binaries required to run the test suite. This can then be transferred to the target machine and run in a MinGW or Cygwin shell. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
