[Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

David dfkettle at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 09:19:33 EST 2009


Hi!

I've just installed ghc (v 6.10.1) for Windows, and it seems to be
installed correctly, and now I'm trying to install Cabal (v1.6.0.2),
but I'm getting the following error message (along with a lot of
warnings about a deprecated something-or-other, which I assume I can
ignore):

C:\Temp>runghc Setup configure -p

Distribution\Simple\Utils.hs:1:11:
    Warning: -fffi is deprecated: use -XForeignFunctionInterface or
pragma {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface#-} instead

Distribution\Simple\Utils.hs:4:15:
    Warning: -fffi is deprecated: use -XForeignFunctionInterface or
pragma {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface#-} instead

Distribution\Simple\InstallDirs.hs:1:11:
    Warning: -fffi is deprecated: use -XForeignFunctionInterface or
pragma {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface#-} instead

Distribution\Simple\InstallDirs.hs:4:15:
    Warning: -fffi is deprecated: use -XForeignFunctionInterface or
pragma {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface#-} instead

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

Am I missing a dependency, or is ghc not installed properly, or am I
doing something else wrong?

Thanks,
David.


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