Re: Win-GHC with GnuWin32 toolset--Mingw32 replacement

On Jan 9, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Creating DLLs from Haskell code is orthogonal to the native Windows  
> port; I think you're complicating the issue here.  There's a lot to  
> do in order to get DLLs working, but it's not on the critical path.
>
> Explicitly loading DLLs (using LoadLibrary, I presume) is  
> supported, and again I think this is orthogonal to the native  
> windows port.
>
> If there were any calling convention mismatches, then they would  
> already be affecting us - in fact we did find a couple recently.

Oh, I'm not working on getting DLLs going but I am running over some  
of the issues because I think I should leave certain compiler command  
options and other little details open, also, while I am writing  
documentation concurrent with the port, it would be nice to summarise  
the open areas.

Cheers,
Pete