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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2017-06-06T19:59:43Z"
+ content="""
+<https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.10.3/docs/html/users_guide/options-phases.html#options-linker>
+has some stuff about the windows manifest files. Seems that ghc supplies a
+default one, and -fno-embed-manifest can be used to disable that. Then
+`windres` could be used to add in a manifest file that enables long
+filenames.
+"""]]