ghc-6.6 candidate Win32 installer

Einar Karttunen ekarttun at cs.helsinki.fi
Sat Oct 14 15:49:01 EDT 2006


On 14.10 10:20, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:05:49PM -0700, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> > Afraid I have to disappoint you (again :-( ) wrt OpenAL/ALUT. A bit
> > too late, but _if_ there's a wider agreement that including a
> > package such as this would be generally useful, I'd be happy to
> > do something about it the next time around.
> > 
> > cabal-get + hackage.haskell.org really ought to be the distribution
> > channel for not-quite(-yet?)-mainstream packages though.
> 
> That would be fine for pure Haskell packages (when hackage is ready),
> but Cabal can't handle packages that require non-trivial configuration
> (like OpenAL and ALUT) on Windows without MSYS.

If people are interested I have NSIS scripts that make it trivial to
create windows binary installers for many Haskell packages (for GHC).

I would be interested in creating a repository of windows binary
packages but I lack the space for hosting such a thing.

- Einar Karttunen


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