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

[Asokan Pichai]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Tetley
<stephen.tetley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
AFAIK MingW is intended to develop WIn32 apps on a Linux platform.

The OP's question is for a Unix-like environment on Windows; which
is Cygwin.

>
> 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.

I do not understand this part.

Asokan