ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.1
Dominick Samperi
djsamperi at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 19:12:17 UTC 2014
Thank you Michael,
It is not clear how to install the latest cabal under Windows.
Apparently cabal cannot install itself (cabal install cabal), so
I tried simply downloading cabal.exe from the cabal site and
placing it in my path. cabal --version shows the correct version
(1.18), but when I try 'cabal install cabal-install' I get:
setup-Cabal-1.18.1.3_x86_64-windows-ghc-7.8.1.exe: does not exist
MSYS did fix the configure issues with network (before I updated
cabal as above), and I did clear out my old cabal and ghc folders.
Thanks,
Dominick
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Michael Steele <mikesteele81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dominick,
>
> I don't know what error you ran into, but here are a few tips:
>
> * The "network" package requires configure, so you will likely need to
> install it from an MSYS prompt.
>
> * Make sure your existing cabal executable is version 1.18 or higher.
> Execute `cabal --version` and `ghc --version` to make sure older versions
> are not being found. Because of the way Windows handles paths you may have
> to specify the full path to cabal.exe
>
> * Delete your %appdata%\ghc and %appdata%\cabal folders, then run `cabal
> update`. This will clear out any previous cabal packages you may have
> already installed.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Austin!
>>
>> I unpacked the Windows 64bit distribution and tried to update cabal as
>> instructed, but got this:
>> Registering zlib-0.5.4.1...
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> HTTP-4000.2.12 depends on network 2.4.2.2 which failed to install.
>> network-2.4.2.2 failed during the configure step.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
>> wrote:
>> > ==============================================================
>> > The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1
>> > ==============================================================
>> >
>> > The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
>> > have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
>> > including:
>> >
>> > * New type-system features
>> > * Closed type families
>> > * Role checking
>> > * An improved solver for type naturals
>> > * Better support for cross compilation
>> > * Full iOS support
>> > * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager
>> > * Dynamic linking for GHCi
>> > * Several language improvements
>> > * Pattern synonyms
>> > * Overloaded list syntax
>> > * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class
>> > * A new parallel --make mode
>> > * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support
>> > * A brand-new low level code generator
>> > * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements.
>> >
>> > The full release notes are here:
>> >
>> > http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html
>> >
>> > How to get it
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> > The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
>> >
>> > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
>> >
>> > We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
>> > platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
>> > place.
>> >
>> > Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
>> > system isn't available yet, please try again later.
>> >
>> >
>> > Background
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> > Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
>> >
>> > GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
>> > an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
>> > platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
>> > development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
>> > facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
>> > language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
>> > language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
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>> >
>> > A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
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>> > contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
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>> >
>> >
>> > On-line GHC-related resources
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> > Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
>> >
>> > GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
>> > GHC developers' home page http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
>> > Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > Supported Platforms
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> > The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
>> > is here:
>> >
>> > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC
>> >
>> > Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
>> > difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
>> > new platform:
>> >
>> > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
>> >
>> >
>> > Developers
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> > We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source
>> > code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are
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>> >
>> > http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
>> >
>> >
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>> >
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>> >
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>> >
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>> >
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>> >
>> > Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on
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>> >
>> > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>> >
>> > Hashes & Signatures
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>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>> > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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