patch applied (ghc): Use mingw tarballs to get mingw on Windows

[Simon Marlow]

On 01/10/2009 23:59, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Wed Sep 30 13:03:58 PDT 2009  Ian Lynagh<igloo at earth.li>
>    * Use mingw tarballs to get mingw on Windows
>
>      M ./configure.ac -12 +27
>      M ./ghc.mk -12
>      M ./ghc/ghc.mk -3 +3
>      A ./mingw/
>      A ./mingw/binutils-2.19.1-mingw32-bin.tar.gz
>      A ./mingw/gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz
>      A ./mingw/mingw-runtime-3.14.tar.gz
>      A ./mingw/w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz

A good step forward, I think.  This should make building on Windows less 
error prone.

We should update the wiki; I take it that the second and third steps on

   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows

are no longer required?  How did you work around the windres issue?

Cheers,
	Simon