Win-GHC with GnuWin32 toolset--Mingw32 replacement

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

>  From what I have seen in some parts of GHC, that is, in the Main
> driver, Code Generator (CodeGen), Cmm and Native Code Generator
> (NCG), the Haskell used is fairly standard Haskell98.

I would be surprised if Yhc was capable of compiling GHC. But I don't
really know for sure, and would certainly be happy if that was the
case. You'd also get bootstrapping for free, with the .hbc compilation
route, which is a very attractive option.

> You would think MS would attempt to maintain some consistency.

lol :) (I say that as a Windows user who loves Visual Studio)

> An alternative solution would be to query the Registry
> (say, KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version]\
> [something--haven't found out yet]).  I have to find a good program
> for this purpose.

On Xp and W2K the reg program is capable of querying and modifying the
registry. Just type "reg" at the command line. It basically calls the
Win32 Reg... functions with the appropriate parameters.

Thanks

Neil