[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install on Windows

[Michael Fan]

I figured it out. It appears to be "Colour" package specific.
The datadir still point to "c:\Program File" even with --user.
I manually edit the dist/setup-config and get Colour installed.
After that, other packages seem working fine.

Jian Fan <abemud at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does cabal install --user or --prefix work on Windows at all?
> I tried:
> 
> cabal install colour --user
> cabal install --user colour
> etc
> 
> and all failed because install try to install at c:Program Files
> which I don't have permission writing.
> 
> I have: 
> cabal-install version 0.6.2
> using version 1.6.0.3 of the Cabal library
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.4
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jian
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