[Haskell-beginners] Installing HDBC

[Daniel Fischer]

On Monday 31 January 2011 16:39:30, Kathleen Lynch 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
>   a.. HDBC-2.2.6.1.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
>   b.. package description (included in the package)
> If I'm correct, tar is a Unixy thing...

Windows can handle .tar.gz, but if you have the cabal executable (you 
should have it if you've installed the Haskell platform, otherwise you'll 
probably need it sooner or later anyway: 
http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html
), simply "cabal install HDBC" [1] in a command shell should work (unless 
there are some foreign [C] libraries missing, in which case you'd need to 
install those first).

[1] before you can cabal install something, you first need to call "cabal 
update" to let cabal know what is available on hackage

>
> Can someone tell me how to download this to a Windows Vista PC?
>
> Thank you