[Haskell-cafe] Problem installing Cabal-1.4.0.1 with ghc-6.8.3

[Sasko Mateski]

Hi,



After reading the latest article on the Haskell Hacking blog (Daily Haskell:
Download and analyse logs, then generate
sparklines<http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Edons/blog/2008/06/24#daily-haskell-one>)
I wanted to install cabal-install to check it out. Soon I found out that it
has a dependency on
Cabal (>=1.4&&<1.5), so next thing to do was getting and installing
Cabal-1.4.0.1 (since the version coming with
ghc-6.8.3 is 1.2.4.0). But during the configuration part of the installation
I got the following error:

During interactive linking, GHCi couldn't find the following symbol:
  SHGetFolderPathA at 20
This may be due to you not asking GHCi to load extra object files,
archives or DLLs needed by your current session.  Restart GHCi, specifying
the missing library using the -L/path/to/object/dir and -lmissinglibname
flags, or simply by naming the relevant files on the GHCi command line.
Alternatively, this link failure might indicate a bug in GHCi.
If you suspect the latter, please send a bug report to:
  glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org

<glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org>



After some googling, I couldn't find anything on the web related to the
problem, so posting to a Haskell mailing list seemed like an obvious next
step.  Since I'm a novice Haskell any help would be very much appreciated,
indeed.

I'm using *ghc-6.8.3* on a *Windows XP Professional SP3*.



Regards

*Sasko*
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