[Haskell-cafe] Fail to install SDL with Cabal

Job Vranish job.vranish at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 09:08:32 EDT 2010


You might try emailing the maintainer directly. The package appears to be
actively maintained.

- Job

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Eitan Goldshtrom <thesourceofx at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I'm trying to install SDL through Cabal -- I don't know another way to
> install it. However, I'm getting this:
>
> setup.exe: The package has a './configure' script. This requires a Unix
> compatibility toolchain such as MinGW+MSYS or Cygwin.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> SDL-0.5.10 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> I have MinGW and MSYS, so I don't understand why I'm having this problem.
> Do I need to set something special up so that Cabal can access their tools?
>
> -Eitan
>
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