[Haskell-cafe] Problem installing curl

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Tue Nov 11 13:49:13 EST 2008


huschi:
> Hi all,
> 
> when I try to install curl (needed for hxt) using "cabal install curl" I 
> alwas get the following error message:
> 
> 
> Resolving dependencies...
> 'curl-1.3.2.1' is cached.
> Configuring curl-1.3.2.1...
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> curl-1.3.2.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> sh: runGenProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory)
> 
> 
> I don't know what to do here. Can anybody help me please?
> 
> I'm using the brand new GHC 6.10.1 on Windows Vista.
> 
> Best regards,
> 

Do you  have the curl C library installed?

Either way, that error message from Cabal isn't very good. Duncan?

-- Don


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