[Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Arthur,

The correct steps to take are:

1) install GHC from the windows installer - trivial
2) install Gtk2hs from the windows installer

Unfortunately Gtk2hs hasn't been updated to work with GHC 6.8.1, so
step 2 will fail. The person who is going to do this is Duncan. He
usually breaks down and does this once people start complaining on the
mailing list.

>         - Installed MinGW 5.1.3

Generally, if you have to install MinGW you can pretty much guarantee
that something somewhere is going to go wrong - not enough people test
this route to make it reliable.

Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you stray of
the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse.

Thanks

Neil