[GHC] Visual Haskell install error

[Liam Clarke]

Thanks for that, will do. :)

Simon Marlow wrote:
> Thanks for the analysis.  You can use the GHC bug tracker for tickets 
> against Visual Haskell - just set the Component field to "Visual 
> Haskell". Unfortunately we can't guarantee to fix anything promptly; 
> Krasimir Angelov is the only person actively working on Visual 
> Haskell, and he's been quiet recently.
>
> Cheers,
>     Simon
>
> Liam Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Did you use the default install directory or a custom one? A custom 
>> directory what caused this error for me. The simple solution was to 
>> uninstall and reinstall to the default Program Files\Visual Haskell 
>> path.
>>
>> Alternately, have a look at this file here - 
>> http://darcs.haskell.org/vshaskell/vs_haskell_setup/setup.vbs
>>
>> What's failing is the calls to regsvr32.exe - if you search your 
>> system for vs_haskell.dll, you'll most likely find that it's in... 
>> C:\Program Files\Visual Haskell\bin, no matter what install directory 
>> you specified.
>>
>> If you check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Visual 
>> Haskell\<Visual Studio version>\InstallDir you'll see that it's set 
>> to the one you specified (where Visual Studio version is 7.1 for 2003 
>> and 8.0 for VS 2005.
>>
>> So what's happening is that regsvr32 is trying to find the DLL's in 
>> the \bin directory of your specified install dir, but the DLL's are 
>> over in Program Files... not sure what other bugs this could 
>> introduce, hence why I reinstalled to Progam Files <etc>. If you run 
>> the following three commands in a command prompt, it should work to 
>> some extent, but I'll reiterate that I haven't tested this.
>>
>> regsvr32.exe /i:8.0 /n /s "C:\Program Files\bin\vs_haskell.dll"
>> regsvr32.exe /i:8.0 /n /s "C:\Program Files\bin\vs_haskell_babel.dll"
>> regsvr32.exe /i:8.0 /n /s "C:\Program Files\bin\vs_haskell_babel.dll"
>>
>> VS 2003 users should replace 8.0 with 7.1...
>>
>> Now, is there a bug tracker anywhere for this, or is it just the 
>> mailing list? I think the hardcoded paths in 
>> http://darcs.haskell.org/vshaskell/vs_haskell_setup/Common.wxs need 
>> to be tweaked, or the reg key(s) modified. :-)
>>
>> Anyway, hope that helps you, good luck.
>>
>> Liam Clarke
>>
>>
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