[Haskell-cafe] ANN: "Real World Haskell", now shipping

[Tobias Bexelius]

An even more painless way to do it is to edit the .cabal file (or just
cabal on Windows) in the cabal user directory (somwhere under the
AppData folder on windows), to have default values for
extra-include-dirs and extra-lib-dirs. Then you don't need to enter them
explicitly every time you use cabal.

/Tobias


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Judah Jacobson
Sent: den 4 december 2008 01:07
To: Andrew Coppin
Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: "Real World Haskell", now shipping

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>>
>> On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:44, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>>
>>> Regardless, it has been my general experience that almost everything

>>> obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. 
>>> (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build 
>>> process!) I haven't seen similar problems on Linux. (But I don't use

>>> Linux very often.) About the worst problem there was Gtk2hs being 
>>> confused about some Autoconfig stuff or something...
>>
>>
>> Many packages assume you have the msys / mingw stuff installed on 
>> Windows (if they work at all; those of us who don't develop on 
>> Windows wouldn't really know how to go about being compatible).
>>
>
> According to the Cabal experts, the issue is that Windows doesn't have

> a "standard" place for keeping header files like the various POSIX 
> environments typically do. That means anything that binds an external 
> C library (i.e., almost all useful Haskell packages) don't easily work

> on Windows. I'm not sure what the solution to this is...

Have you tried passing the --extra-include-dirs and --extra-lib-dirs
arguments to 'cabal install'?  On OS X, that's how I deal with the
macports package manager which puts all library files under /opt/local.
I've found the process pretty painless.

-Judah
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