64-bit windows version?

[Simon Marlow]

Peter Tanski wrote:
> 
> 
>> skaller wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:23 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello glasgow-haskell-users,
>>>>>
>>>>> are you plan to implement 64-bit windows GHC version?
>>>>>
>>>> The main thing standing in the way of this is the lack of a 64-bit 
>>>> port of
>>>> mingw.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why do you need mingw? What's wrong with MSVC++?
> 
> The largest problem is the build system: GHC uses autoconf with custom 
> makefiles.

So autoconf won't work with MSVC++, that is indeed a problem.  But this doesn't 
mean we have to stop using Makefiles and GNU make - the rest of the build system 
will work fine, provided it's told about the different conventions for names of 
object files etc.  I don't see a compelling enough reason to stop using GNU 
make.  The build system doesn't even need to invoke CL directly, since we can 
use GHC as a "driver" (isn't this the way we agreed to do it before?).

We use autoconf in a pretty limited way (no automake), so I don't think it will 
be hard to work around, even if we have to just hard-code all the configuration 
results for Windows.

Cheers,
	Simon