[Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems with Windows

[John Van Enk]

One more thing, I also had to add my cygwin bin directory containing
"sh.exe" to my Windows %PATH% variable. This allowed network to configure
from the windows command prompt.

/jve


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:37 PM, John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to reinstall network-2.2.0.0 against Parsec 3 in Windows. Well,
> this is really hard/impossible to do. Here's what I've done so far:
> 1) After bashing my face against my desk for a while, I got cabal-install
> installed in windows.
> 2) cabal install network --reinstall
> 3) This freaks out because I don't have hsc2hs installed, but it doesn't
> tell me that, it just complains about something having to do with sizeof.
> 4) I figure out that I need hsc2hs installed, and i put cabal-install to
> use fetching it for me.
> 5) cabal-install fails because hsc2hs needs the process and directory
> packages, but they aren't exposed by the cabal file (at least in the version
> sitting on hackage, I assume this is the right one to use).
> 6) I give up on using cabal-install to get hsc2hs, so i download the targz
> for hsc2hs directly.
> 7) I fix the .cabal file to include process and directory
> 8) runhaskell Setup configure:
> >runhaskell Setup configure
> Configuring hsc2hs-0.67.20061107...
> Warning: No 'build-type' specified. If you do not need a custom Setup.hs or
> ./configure script then use 'build-type: Simple'.
> 9) runhaskell Setup build:
> Everything works fine.
> 10) runhaskell Setup install:
> Everything works fine.
> 11) Go back to try and install network-2.2.0.0 again with cabal-install.
> 12) Gets past the sizeof/hsc2hs errors, but then chokes on spaces in build
> path names:
> Preprocessing library network-2.2.0.0...
> gcc.exe: Files\Haskell\parsec-2.1.0.1\ghc-6.8.3: No such file or directory
> linking dist\build\Network\BSD_hsc_make.o failed
> command was: C:\ghc\ghc-6.8.3\gcc.exe -BC:\ghc\ghc-6.8.3\gcc-lib
> -IC:\ghc\ghc-6.8.3\include\mingw -LC:\Program
> Files\Haskell\parsec-2.1.0.1\ghc-6.8.3 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.8.3/lib\base-3.0.2.0
> -lwsock32 -lmsvcrt -lkernel32 -luser32 -lshell32 -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.8.3
> -LC:\ghc\ghc-6.8.3/gcc-lib -lm -lgmp -lwsock32
> dist\build\Network\BSD_hsc_make.o -o dist\build\Network\BSD_hsc_make.exe
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> network-2.2.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:exit:
> ExitFailure 1
> 13) And this is where I finally gave up and came here.
>
> Does any one have any insight into:
> 1) Why cabal doesn't check for hsc2hs during a configure
> 2) How I can rebuild network-2.2.0.0 on my Windows box without sacrificing
> a goat to Bill Gates/GHC Gods?
>
> Thanks.
>
> /jve
>
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