[Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

[Alberto G. Corona]

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cabal install plugins
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.10.1 requires Cabal ==1.6.0.1 however
Cabal-1.6.0.1 was excluded because plugins-1.3.1 requires Cabal ==1.4.*

2009/1/19 Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>

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> I finally installed cabal-install in windows.. I had a copy of sh.exe for
> windows time ago so I could use bootstrap. The only additional thing needed
> is wget(http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/).
> finally I moved the resulting cabal.exe to ghc/bin
>
> 2009/1/19 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>
>
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 01:36 +0100, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
>> > The problem with Windows can be solved once and for all when CygWIN
>> > will be considered  for Windows instead of MinGW. Is that possible?
>>
>> The standard Windows build of GHC does not use Cygwin. So all the
>> programs built with GHC (like cabal) are native Windows programs and do
>> not understand Cygwin paths etc.
>>
>> If you want to build GHC for Cygwin then there is quite a bit of work
>> for you to do to update GHC to build that way.
>>
>> I get the general impression that most users would prefer not to have to
>> install Cygwin or MinGW at all.
>>
>> Duncan
>>
>>
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