[Haskell-cafe] Trying to install Cabal

[David]

Probably not, but I'd like to understand what I'm doing wrong. I think
it might have something to do with the fact that I've also got Hugs
for Windows installed. Could there be some sort of conflict? I'm just
following the steps in Appendix A of "Real World Haskell", which
doesn't mention the pre-built version of Cabal.

Anyway, I'll try your suggestion. Thanks for your help.

David.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Thomas DuBuisson
<thomas.dubuisson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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