[Haskell-cafe] zlib or digest package installation

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Daniel Kahlenberg <d.kahlenberg at googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> when installing pandoc package, which has digest somewhere in
> dependencies the usual cabal install stucks because zlib.h is missing,
> so I explicitly installed zlib package first, then installing digest
> (can also replace that directly with pandoc here) with the
> --extra-include-dirs parameter set:
>
> Prelude System.Cmd>
>> rawSystem "cabal" ["install", "digest", "-v3", "--user", "--
>> build-log=d:/temp/log/build-$$pkgid-$$compiler-msys.log", "--reinstall", "--data
>> dir=$$prefix/haskell-pkgdata", "--extra-include-dirs=C:\\Users\\daniel\\AppData\
>> \Roaming\\cabal\\zlib-0.5.2.0\\ghc-6.12.1\\include"]
>
> Is there something to improve in one of the packages cabal file to
> overcome the need to explicitly specify the header file locations of
> already installed packages or is that a consequence of not installing
> them as developer packages simply, so i. e. to have the header file
> zlib.h at the specified location is more a bonus to have in that situation?

I'm guessing that the problem is that you're installing the packages to
a non-standard location, but I don't use Windows so I can't confirm or
check this in any way.

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