[Haskell-cafe] Need Cabal/library building help for windows

Alistair Bayley alistair at abayley.org
Tue Mar 18 05:28:37 EDT 2008


On 17/03/2008, Felix Martini <fmartini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Ingram wrote:
>  > For reference, I'm using GHC6.8.1 on WinXP.
>
> >  setup.hs: ld is required but it could not be found.
>
> I did have the same issue with GHC 6.8.1 on Windows. It is fixed in
>  version 6.8.2.
>
>  http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_682.html#windows

Upgrading GHC to fix this seems a little extreme. You can just add
gcc-lib (i.e. C:\ghc\ghc-6.8.1\gcc-lib) to your path.

Alistair


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