Visual Haskell 2008

Question

Is Haskell for Visual Studio 2005 compatible with VS2008 SP1?

Answer 1

The answer to your original question is No. The code for visual haskell is written in Haskell and speaks through COM for the visual studio. Now the problem is that even if you upgrade com wrappers to be compatible with new visual studios, you would still be stuck with ghc 6.6 just because you relied on the internal compiler structures to work, some of which had already been removed from 6.8 forward.

Thus, any effort in this part will require a complete rewrite of the plugin.

Now a good new one, I'm busy writing a version for visual studio 2010 (sorry, no, 2008), but, presumably, I could release it as a separate isolated shell for those who do not have vs 2010 (you need to check the license more closely).

I only have time to work on it on the weekend, so I project (no promises) that I will have the first version around July.

Answer 2

I just tried installing it from the link that you provided (yesterday), but the installer complained that it could not find the existing installation of Visual Studio 2005. (I also installed Visual Studio 2008.) Assuming it is hardcoded to search for a specific directory or version number of the installed program? So ... from what I saw, I would say no.

Hope someone else is lucky?

Answer 3

I was told at a conference in 2007 that a Russian student who worked on Visual Studio support for GHC did not complete his work. The person who is likely to know the true status is Simon Marlow at Microsoft Research .