[Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell stuff on Windows

[Don Stewart]

andrewcoppin:
> Thomas Schilling wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:34 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> >  
> >>Neil Mitchell wrote:
> >>    
> >>>Windows and Haskell is not a well travelled route, but if you 
> >>>stray of
> >>>the cuddly installer packages, it gets even worse.
> >>>  
> >>>      
> >>Is that why Cabal packages never ever install on Windows?
> >>    
> >
> >Could you be more specific what your problems are?
> >  
> 
> Not to the point that anybody is likely to be able to help me...
> 
> According to the instructions, if I'm understanding this correctly, 
> you're supposed to be able to unpack a package, and do
> 
>  runhaskell Setup configure
>  runhaskell Setup make
>  runhaskell Setup install

I usually install as  a user, and into my home directory, so the
following just works for the 100-odd haskell packages from hackage i
have installed currently:

   runhaskell Setup configure --user --prefix=$HOME
   runhaskell Setup make
   runhaskell Setup install --user

If that doesn't work, please report it to the author, and the libraries
list, possibly the cabal list. Drop by the IRC channel, we solve
problems in real time :)

-- Don