Re: cc1plus.exe not included in Win32 distro

Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2005 01:58 schrieb Sigbjorn Finne:
> It was intentionally removed (the intention being to remove
> heft from the installer) after it had been unintentionally
> included for quite a while.
>
> The rule has always been that only tools that GHC depends
> upon to operate are bundled with it on the mingw side --
> the only exception to that rule has been the recent inclusion
> of 'ar'.
>
> Should GHC binary dists include a C++ compiler? I'd say
> no, but if there are practical and compelling reasons to do
> so, it's no big deal to re-include the binary.

Well, the main three files which are missing are cc1obj.exe, cc1plus.exe and 
cpp0.exe. Together they are 2.4MB (bzip2-ed), which is not that much compared 
to a 35MB installer. 6.4.1 should be a patchlevel release, so I'd argue to 
*not* remove any functionality in 6.4 and re-include the stuff. Perhaps we 
can leave it out in the next major release, but leaving it in the installer 
is not a big deal IMHO.

Hmmm, I guess that cc1obj.exe is for ObjectiveC and cc1plus.exe is for C++, 
but what is cpp0.exe?

Cheers,
   S.