[Haskell-beginners] trouble installing glib on windows 7

[aditya siram]

I think you want the third-party pkg-config[1] tool. Are you trying to
install Gtk2hs by any chance?

-deech
[1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.25-1_win32.zip

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Michael Litchard <michael at schmong.org> wrote:
> I have Haskell Platform installed, trying to install glib. Here's what
> happens.
>
> $ cabal install glib
> Resolving dependencies...
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs:
> 25: warning: #warning Setup.hs is guessing the version of Cabal. If
> compilation
> of Setup.hs fails use -DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=x for Cabal version 1.x.0 when
> build
> ing (prefixed by --ghc-option= when using the 'cabal' command)
> [1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      (
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-
> 0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\Gtk2HsSetup.hs,
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib
> -0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\Gtk2HsSetup.o )
> [2 of 2] Compiling Main             (
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-
> 0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\Setup.hs,
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.
> 02360\glib-0.12.0\dist\setup\Main.o )
> Linking
> C:\Users\PERFOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\glib-0.12.02360\glib-0.12.0\dist\se
> tup\setup.exe ...
> Configuring glib-0.12.0...
> setup.exe: pkg-config version >=0.9.0 is required but it could not be found.
> cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
> glib-0.12.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
>
>
> Okay, so all I need to do is install pkg-config
>
> $ cabal install pkg-config
> cabal.exe: There is no package named pkg-config. Perhaps you need to run
> 'cabal update' first?
>
> hmm, so how do I install pkg-config?
> cabal update didn't help
>
>
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