[C2hs] Re: c2hs.exe "does not exist" on windows

[Chris Casinghino]

The problem seems to have been that I didn't have gcc installed on
windows.  I confess I feel very silly for not having thought of this!

It's worth noting that the error message is very unhelpful and that
the c2hs docs don't mention that gcc is required (it's obvious that it
should be needed to compile the generated interfaces, but less obvious
that it's needed for c2hs itself).

Sorry to waste your time!

--Chris Casinghino



On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Chris Casinghino
<chris.casinghino at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see in the list archives that someone posted this problem a few
> weeks ago, but there wasn't a response.  So, let me confirm I'm having
> it too.  I installed the haskell platform on windows and then used
> cabal to install c2hs.  It put a binary called "c2hs.exe" in
> "C:\Program Files\Haskell\bin", which appears to be on my path.
> However, when I go to build some software I've written that uses c2hs,
> cabal gives me this error:
>
>  c2hs.exe: does not exist
>
> My package builds fine in linux.  The computer I'm at now is running
> windows xp, service pack 2.  I can try it out on a windows 7 computer
> tomorrow if that would be helpful.
>
> This is my first attempt to build Haskell software on windows, so it's
> conceivable I'm doing something silly.  Thanks in advance for your
> help.
>
> --Chris Casinghino
>