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

[Simon Marlow]

On 04/10/2009 02:10, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:16:09AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>> 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?
>
> Right, you don't need to install mingw or update its windres any more.
> I've updated the wiki page.
>
>> How did you work around the windres issue?
>
> We still do the
>      "--preprocessor=" ++ quote gcc ++ ...,
>      "--use-temp-file"
> trick, so that it can find gcc even if installed to a path containing
> spaces.

Which means we still need a windres version later than the one shipped 
by default?