[Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

[Thomas DuBuisson]

Is there a reason you can't use the pre-built Cabal windows executable [1]?

[1]  http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:19 AM, David <dfkettle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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