Win-GHC with GnuWin32 toolset--Mingw32 replacement

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> Ah.  Nothing like a little exploration :)  Does ./build/platform.py
> sound like the right place to do it?

That's well beyond my scons knowledge. If you repost the question to
the yhc@ list I'm sure our scons expert will be able to give you an
idea.

> configure script; I also wanted to try adding a bootstrap-build of
> ghc-stage1 using yhc since without -fvia-C I don't think Win-GHC can
> bootstrap from .hc files or unregisterised.

I would have thought that was unlikely. Yhc can't even bootstrap Yhc
yet, and from my memory GHC requires GHC 5.04 or greater to build. Yhc
is quite a way behind that in terms of language features etc. I
recommend you first try and rewrite GHC in Haskell 98 ;)

> The vcvarsall.bat in the \Visual Studio X\VC\ directory has goto's
> that essentially redirect to the \Visual Studio X\Common7\Tools
> \vsvars32.bat; my vsvars32.bat doesn't have any goto's in it.

The one in my VC98 installation has some if's in it, so a little more
complex than just set's. It's also named vcvars32.bat instead of
vSvars32.bat.

Thanks

Neil