[Haskell-beginners] Installing regex-pcre (revisited)

[Stephen Tetley]

On 11 December 2011 04:56, Asokan Pichai <pasokan at talentsprint.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:08 AM, MJ Williams
> <matthewjwilliams101 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> I understand there's a UNIX-like environment that one can install on Windows
> CYGWIN?
>

No - for binding to C libraries you want to use MinGW / MSYS.

The reason for this is basically that everyone else does. Linking
static libraries is a bit different internally to Cygwin and it does
not seem to "just work" whereas it usually does on MinGW provided you
have the C library already working.