[Haskell-beginners] Installing HDBC

[Antoine Latter]

Hello,

If you've installed the Haskell Platform for Windows you should have
the command-line tool cabal-install already installed.

For many packages, the following will work:

> cabal update
> cabal install <package-name>

This will fetch the tar.gz package from Hackage (as well as its
transitive dependencies) and install them.

I hear from Windows developers that even with these tools, it is still
a chore to install certain packages and libraries on a Windows
environment. But the above would be the place to start.

Antoine

Links:
The Haskell Platform: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
Cabal install: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Kathleen Lynch
<kmandpjlynch at verizon.net> wrote:
> Good morning,
> I'm trying to install Sqlite on a Windows PC...
> I'm using "Real World Haskell" as a guide in regard to this...
> It indicates that HDBC must be installed first and points to
> http://hackage.haskell.org/.
>
> I displayed this url and see the following in regard to downloading HDBC:
>
> Downloads
>
> HDBC-2.2.6.1.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
> package description (included in the package)
>
> If I'm correct, tar is a Unixy thing...
>
> Can someone tell me how to download this to a Windows Vista PC?
>
> Thank you
>
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